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YONKERS IN THE REBELLION.
TIIK MONIMKNT WIIKS KKADV I'llR HKDUATH
WITH UANOII IIM.I. IN nil: IIAI'K»IIOlM>.
YONKERS
IN THE REBELLION
OF 18()1-1S()5.
INCLUDING A HI8TORY OF
THE ERECTION OF THE MONUMENT TO HONOR THE
MEN OF YONKERS WHO FOUGHT
TO SAVE THE UNION.
BY
THOMAS ASTLEY 4TKINS
AND
JOHN WISE OLIVER.
PUBLISHED BY
THE YONKERS SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' MONUMENT ASSOCIATION.
NM
)pyn{;ht, 189:2. By Thomas Astlkv Atkdcs
and .John Wisk Oliver.
rillNTKI. AT THK I>l
PREFACE.
IN preparing this memorial volume, the authors have aimed to
furnish as complete a history of Yonkees in the Rebellion as
the available material made possible — as well as a full history of
the erection of the Monument which has been placed in front of
Manor Hall, by the liberality and patriotism of the people, and
which is intended to honor those identified with our town who
faced the enemies of the Union in a long and desperate Rebellion.
To insure correctness, the authors consulted State archives, local
records, and many persons who were actors in the stu-ring events
of the time.
In some cases difficulty was experienced in obtaining records of
names, organizations, dates, etc., known to be reliable. Even in
official papers the same persons are recorded differently, and more
or less confusion exists as to the organizations in which some of
them served. And then, again, doubtless some names are omitted,
for want of information, which are justly entitled to a place in this
volume. No reasonable labor was spared to make the record full,
and to avoid errors ; and yet omissions and errors will probably be
discovered. While these are to be regretted, they were unavoid-
(i YOSKERS 1\ TIIK ItEliELI.IOX.
able. The authors ask for leuieut criticism on what, to them, has
heeu a laljor of love, aiul yet, at times, a labor exceedingly arduous
and perplexing.
To Charles E. (Jorton, Major Frederic Shonnai-*!, J<ihii C.Sliotts,
Dr. a. B. Balch, Rev. Charles E. Allison, William. H. Fisher, and
others, who kindly aid<^d in the work, sincere acknowledgments are
here recorded.
YoNKERS, .IaNTAKY 1. ISitl'.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
PAGE
Preface 5
Chapter I. The Call to Ahms.
Town-Meeting — Prompt Response — First Company of Yonkers
Volunteers — Provision for their Families — Presentation
OF A Flag — Loyalty and Patriotism — "We are Nowhere
Told in the Bible to Give up the Flag of Our Country"
— "I am Ready to Die under its Folds" — War in Earnest.
Chapter II. Company A, Seventeenth Regiment NEw-Yorav
Volunteers.
The Capture of the First Cannon, at Hanover Court-House—
The Westchester Chasseurs — Their Record from Official
Archi\t3S 27
Chapter III. Sixth iSTew-York Volunteer Artillery.
Union Defence Committee — Colonel William H. Morris — Sol-
dierly Bearing and Discipline— Heroic Fighting Qualities
—Colonel J. Howard Kitching— List of Battles— Com-
mended IN Special Orders 33
7
8 YOSKERS IN THE liEliELLloy.
Chaptei! IV. TiiF. Thikty-Days Men.
Captain John Danis Hatch's Company — Valiant SER\acE at
Fort McHenry', Baltimoke— Captain John Padden's Com-
pany — Garrison Duty at Fort Riciimond, Ne\v-York
Harbor 51
Chaptek V. The Home Giards.
The Draft Riots in New- York— Yonkers Threatened— Dr.
Henry M. Baird on the Situation — The Home Guards Or-
ganized TO Preserve Order and Protect Property —
Watch-Tower of the First Presbyterian Church — "An
Awkward Squad" — Duties Defined by Frederick S. Cozzens
— An Arrest and ("oiht Martial— Good Service at a
Critical Time
Chapter VI. The Sanitary Fair.
A (iuEAT Success — Over Sixteen Thousand Dollars Raised to
Aid the Bekevolent Work ok the United States Sanitary
Commission G3
(■hapter VII. At the Close ok the War.
YoNKKUS AT TIIK ('l,OSK OK TlIK RkHKI.MON — (iKuWTll OK TlIK \"ll.-
LAOE — More Prohressivk — The Census — Celebration of
THE Fall ok Richmond— President Lincoln's Assassination
— Return ok Ouk liuAVK Soldiers .
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Chaptek VIII. Brevet Brigadiee-Geneeal John Howaed
KiTCHING.
A True Christian Hero— His Bravery, Military Skill, and
Services as a Commander — The Fatal Shot at Cedar
Creek — His Untimely Death at Dobbs Ferry i
Chapter IX. Some Personal Recoeds of the War.
Colonel Fisher A. Baker and His Battles— Surgeon G. B.
Balch — Jeremiah Burns and the White House — The First
ToNKERS Hero Who Died for the Union — Captain Matt.
H. Ellis and His Campaigns— Hand-to-Hand Encounter of
Captain William L. Heermance with Captain B. M. Medina
— The Hero and His Crutch — General Thomas Ewing at
Pilot Kjstob — Adjutant James Millward and the Washing-
ton Clay Battalion— Major James V. Lawrence and
Mosby's Band — Thomas Oliver's Lost Medal — Abraham J.
Palmer and "The Die-No-Mores"— Ralph E. Prime's Ser-
vices AND Promotions — Where William Riley Lost His
Arm — Major Frederic Shonnard's Honorable Career —
Captain James Stewart, Jr., Rescues Generals Hooker and
Williams from an Embarrassing Situation 105
Chapter X. Oue Heeoes' Last Sleep.
At Rest in St. John's, Oakland, St. Mary's and St. Joseph's
Cemeteries — Their Graates Kept in Reverent Remembrance. 143
10 YONKEUS IN THE UEliELLION.
Chaptek XI. A Roll of Hoxoit.
Soldiers and Sailoks of the Wak now oh late RESiDtNO in
YONKERS 14!>
(!hai'tek XII. The (Ikand Ahmy of the Republic.
KiTCHiNO Post— John C. Fremont Post— Men Who Bra\'elv
Faced the Rebel Fire in Defence of the Union 169
Ouaptek XIII. The Sdi.dif.ks' and Sailoks' Moximext
Association.
Its History and Its Work — The Foirth Separate Company
Fair— Depew Night is:{
Chapter XIV. Erection of the Moximent.
Arrival of the Bronze Statues. and Granite-Work — Thkir
Approvai — Layinci op the Corner-Stone — The Erection 19!)
Chapieu XV. The Dedication.
(iREAT Concourse of I^eofle- The Decorations— The Proces-
sion—The Music— The Oration— The Original Poems—
The Unveilino — The Dedicatory Address— The Naval
Salute — lMPosiN(i Services and Historic Day ' im
TABLE OF CONTENTS. U
Chapter XVI. The Association's Work Completed.
The Enclosure — The Memorial Volume — All Obligations
Promptly Met 243
Chapter XVII. Contributors to the Monument Fund.
The Association — Its Officers and Principal Committees . . . 24.5
ENGRAVINGS.
The Monument when Ready for Dedication, Manor
Hall in the Background Frontispiece
The Infantry Statue -4
The Artillery Statue 48
General John Howard Kitching 82 ^
The Naval Statue 140 '^
The Cavalry Statue ICO ''
The Color-Bearer I'^O
The Monument and Enclosure -^8 i-
YONKERS IN THE REBELLION.
CHAPTER I.
THE CALL TO ARMS.
Town-Meeting — Prompt Response — Fiest Company of Yonkers
Volunteers — Provision for their Families — Presentation
OF a Flag — Loyalty and Patriotism — "We are Nowhere
Told in the Bible to Give up the Flag of Our Country " —
"I AM Ready to Die under its Folds" — War in Earnest.
I ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, in
, virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitution aud the
laws, have thought fit to call forth, aud hereby do call forth, the
militia of the several States of the Union to the aggregate number
of seventy-five thousand, in order to suppress said combinations
and to cause the laws to be duly executed.
"I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate, and aid this
eifort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of
3 13
14 YOXKKHS IX THE REBEI.LIOX.
our National Union, and the perpetuity of popular government,
and to redress wrongs already long enough endured."
So spake the President in his Proclamation, dated at Washing-
ton, April 15, 1861.
At four o'clock on the morning of April lli, lS(i], tlit- first gun
was fii-ed at Fort Sumter. The echo waked the slumbering patri-
otism of the Nation. When the smoke rolled away, the glorious
sun of liberty for all men arose upon an expectant universe. Says
a local chronicler, writing on the morning of April 15 : " No event
which has occurred within the recollection of the present genera-
tion, it is safe to assume, ever occasioned such profound and wide-
spread excitement as that which has pervaded all classes since
the attack upon Fort Sumter was announced. The war was the
absorbing topic among all classes of citizens."
The first gun changed public sentiment in a trice. There was but
one party now, and that the party of the Union. " There is but one
sentiment now toiicliini;- the duty of the citizen at tliis lionr — to sus-
tain the Oovernnifiit. ( )ii every corner, in every car, in every churcli
vestibule, could be lieard tlie remark, ' I will stand by the (rovern-
nient of my country when assailed, as it now is, by traitors.'" So
said a prominent citizen, and he but expressed the popular feeling.
The excitement in Yonkers, as everywhere, was intense. In fact,
nothing else but the war, which was now upon them in dead ear-
nest, was the subject of conversatinn. (ndinary topics ceased to
be of interest. The papers were lilled with news, or alleged news,
from the seat of war, and edition after edition was exhausted, and
\\v d.Tuand for news not sate<l.
I'roni All.aiiy came advices that (iovernor Edwin I ). Morgan
had i.roni|itly issued a call for li.^.Odd men to go to the war from the
THE CALL TO ARMS. 15
State of New- York. This, with the President's call, set the town of
Yonkers in a ferment; for the Grovernor was the Commander-in-
Chief of the State Militia, and his call gave official life to the patri-
otic zeal of onr townspeople.
The State quota was but 17 regiments, consisting each of an
aggregate of 780 officers and men. They were to serve three
months. Such was the intensity of martial zeal those April days
that it seemed to one on the spot as if every able-bodied man
under the age of forty-five years must abandon home and busi-
ness and enlist.
For days after these calls the country was on fire with zeal, ablaze
with patriotism. For a while it seemed as if such a cruelty as a
draft could never be ti'ied here, and that tens of thousands must
necessarily be rejected as volunteers.
A town-meeting was held in Radford Hall, at which stii-ring
aopeals were made for volunteers to take up arms in defense of the
Government. Seventy-five men responded, on assurances that the
families would be aided while the bread-winners were at the front.
John T. Waring, President of the village, administered the oath of
allegiance to the volunteers.
Next morning several of the volunteers informed Mr. Waring that
they did not deem it prudent to leave their families to be cared for
by a town-meeting. "But," said one, " if you will give your per-
sonal promise that our families shall receive the promised aid, we
will go, cheered by the belief that our families wall not be left to
suffer." Mr. Waring appeared before the men, gave the desired
promise, and the company went off in good spirits. " I considered
the confidence reposed in me under the circumstances," says Mr.
Waring, " as the highest compliment of my life."
IG YOyKEIiS JX THE KEIiELLIOy.
The next day Mr. Waring and Ethan Flagg, on investigation, dis-
covered that sixty-five of the enlisted men had families in varied
circumstances. A fixed amount was agreed upon for each family,
and it was an-anged that a member should call at Mr. taring's
oflBee every Saturday and receive the amount promised — and tliat
arrangement was continued for the term of the enlistment. After-
ward Ml-. Waring was reimbursed by the town.
A few quotations from our local press, in the early days of the
Rebellion, may not be amiss, and will, perhaps, enable us to under-
stand better the pages of history which are to follow. Said a local
editorial, April 20, 1861 :
We hoist at our masthead the flag we have always honored and revered, the flag:
under which we were bom, and Ijeneath whose starry folds we expect to draw our
last breath. We believe that, at a time like this, the display of any and everj" thing
calculated to awaken patriotic emotion is proper, and we rejoice to see the Nation's
banner everywhere displayed.
Again :
It is uiiquestiouably the duty of patriotic citizens, in an emergency like the
present, to cooperate in all proper efforts to vindicate the honor of the National
flag, to support the Government in all just measures for the restoration of peace,
and above all to join in the defense of the Capitol in Washington against invasion,
from whatever quarter it may come. It is the duty of every citizen, at this time,
to display his devotion to the Union in an unmistakable manner, and, if need be,
shoulder his musket for that purpose.
Such a soul-stirring ap]»eal could not be, and was not, lost upon
the young men of tlic village of Yonkci-s.
A local paper of April l!7, iSfil, says:
As early as Tuesday morning, April 2.3, the company of volunteers, which liad
been organized in so short a time, look tiieir departure from our village for the
THE CALL TO ARMS. 17
purpose of enrolling their names on the muster-in roll of a regiment of New- York
State Volunteers then forming in New-York. Never before did we witness such an
outpouring of patriotic spnpathy as that which greeted them on every turn, as
they proceeded through the viUage — deep, reverential, heartfelt sympathy for the
boys who had forsaken father, mother, and friends to sustain and protect the honor
of the flag which they had been taught to revere and respect.
All tlirough the morniBg of this eventful day a large crowd,
drawn from all parts of the town, had filled Getty Square and
" discussed the all-absorbing topics of the day, our soldiers' pros-
pects and the departure of the volunteers." The scene was one
which has never been forgotten by those who took part in it, and
it had a most invigorating effect upon the departing company.
At eleven o'clock in the morning the first company of Yonkers
Volunteers formed in line, and, prior to their departure, marched
through the principal streets of the village. They were preceded
by the Yonkers Cornet Band, aud had for their escort a long line
of citizens and firemen. After the band came the members of
Lady Washington Engine Company No. 2, dragging their appa-
ratus, which, we are told, was "tastefully decorated and covered with
American flags, and presented quite a handsome appearance."
All Yonkers was out of doors or at the windows on that eventful
morning. Every window and door along the long line of march
was occupied by women and children, " anxious to take a last view
and bid a final farewell to the brave men of our village."
As the procession passed the Main Street House it was saluted
by the firing of guns and other patriotic demonstrations. Arrived
at the railroad station at the foot of Main street, it seemed as if
the whole town had gathered to do the volunteers honor. It was,
we are told, "the scene and center of the most intense and exciting
18 YOXKKUS IX TIIK RKBELUOX.
iuterest, the square being as one vast sea of heads. Tlie Youkers
Liederkrauz sang several patriotic hymns, while the thundering
echoes of the cannon would occasionally drown tln-ir voices for the
time in the notes of war."
And so amid cheer and acclaim our brave boys left their homes
for the war, and, says our chronicler, " the train passed ont of
sight." He adds to the account of the day's doings the humble
prayer: "May the God of battles lead our nwii t<> lionor and
victory."
A notable event at this time was the success of a subscription
taken in a great hurry to defray the preliminary expenses of the
volunteers. Almost without effort $3,000 were subscribed, and at
once. The subscription list is a notable one, and among the donors
of large amounts we find the names of John T. Waring, Frederick A.
Coe, Ethan Flagg, Robert J. Douglass, James B. Colgate, William
Bell, Edward Underhill, Anson Baldwin, Edward F. Shonnard,
George B. Skinner, Edward Martin, William Macfarlane, St. Paul's
Church, Jeremiah Bobbins, Thomas C. Cornell, Charles E. Waring,
Samuel D. Rockwell, Francis N. Bangs, Lyman Cobb, Jr., Isaac H.
Knox, Walter H. Paddock, Robert J. Tojilis, Isaac V. Fowler, Ralph
Shipman, ajid a liost of others. "Let all wlio ean jilaee their
names on the list," wrote the local editor, and tlie invitation did
not pass unheeded.
Worthy of preservation in our local records is the Hag-presenta-
tion by Robert J. Douglass. This flag was presented to the volun-
teers in Getty Square, at an out-of-door meeting at whicli Thomas
F. Morris was cjiairman and Ajonzo Hell was secretary.
Tile presentation speech was uukU- by the Reverend Darius K*.
Hre\v<T, re<-tor of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Clnnvli, in tii.'
THE CALL TO ABMS. 19
course of which he said : " We are directed in the Bible that if a
man shall take away your coat, to give him your cloak also — but
we are nowhere told in the Bible to give up the flag of our
country."
Captain Charles H. Smith responded for the volunteers. His
peroration stirred the souls of his hearers. " I was born under that
flag," said he ; "I have lived and fought under that flag, and am
ready to die under its folds."
That our people were thoroughly satisfied with and proud of
their first company is evidenced by the following, taken from a local
paper of the date of May 4, 1861 :
We cannot refrain from noticing in complimentary terms the brave fellows who
{should the war begin in earnest) will represent our village in the contest. They
are all young, tough and active, compact of form and sinewy. The quiet and
gentlemanly manner in which they have conducted themselves at their quarters in
New- York has elicited the warmest commendations from aU sources.
Our local was equally proud of " Our Charlie." It says :
Captain Charles H. Smith, of the Westchester Chasseurs, made his appearance
among us a few days ago in his full set of regimentals. He looked Uke a true
soldier, and impressed every one with the conviction that he might well be regarded
as a descendant of the famous Captain John Smith of Virginia.
And so our boys " went to the war." And thus the war opened
for our village and town.
It will be noted above that the local writer of the ith of May, 1861,
remarks, in parenthesis, " should the war begin in earnest." This
merely gives phrase to what was in the minds of many at that time.
It was hard to believe, at that day, that actual war was intended or
20 YOXKKh-S I\ THE hhBELLfO.W
would come. No doubt many volunteered with that idea. This
view was rudely shattered by the result of the first battle of Bull
Run. To Vonkers the awakening of that day was siekfMiini; and
terrible. Our dear ones had gone indeed to the war.
Shortly after the middle of July, the head-lines of " Dis.\ster to
THE Union Army," and " Retreat of Ctener.\.l McDowell's Com-
mand FROM Manassas," drove the iron into the .soul of our thereto-
fore hopeful people. Yonkers village and town were in gloom.
Indeed their dear ones had "gone to the war."
" But," says a winter of that date, "the feeling of surprise, sancti-
fied by sorrow for the gallant soldiers sadly sacrificed in this dis-
astrous retreat soon gave way to a stern and deep determination in
every bosom to spare no effort, either in men or money, at once to
supply theii- places and avenge their death, and further to increase
the efficiency of the Army of the Union with all possible despatch."
Another writer said, "Adver.sity is a beneficent teacher, but we
learn what is our first should lie our last li-sson."'
And .so Yonkers girdeil up its luins and went anew into tiie con-
flict, saddened but having learned well its lesson. For four long
and weary years our town jtonrcd into tlie lajiof the Nation gener-
ous donations of nifii ami moiiry. Call after call for recruits was
met with promptness and generosity. Every reasoiialile denumd
for means was responded to affirmatively.
In charities, also, were oiir townspeople in tlie van, and materials
and money for the sick and wounded were literally jtoured, like
l)alm, n]ion tlie sutTi'i'iiig soldiers, and the record of Yonkers is
poiiite(l to with jiride to this day. An<l from .lay to day, w.'ck to
week, those joiit: and dreary years, did our iiohle boys go to the war
— now, in earnest.
THE CALL TO ARMS. 21
Among the first Yonkers men mvistered into the United States
service to put down the RebeUion, and who went with the Fifth
New- York Volunteer Infantry, known as the Duryea Zouaves,
commanded by Colonel Abram Duiyea, were James Finnan, Com-
pany C; George A. Mitchell, Charles Allen, Charles Fortescue, Henry
Wicker, James W. Brown, David Crofut, Greorge Hitchcock, James
Murphy, John G. Peene, George Post, WiUiam C. Eyer, Benjamin
Sullivan, James Sheridan, Frank Morgan, and William Sweeney, all
in Company F; Ralph E. Prime, in Company G; and Thomas Cahill,
musician. They all enlisted in April, 1861. The following joined
the same Regiment at Fort Federal Hill, Baltimore, in the fall of
1861: James Franklin, William Stapleton, and Edward Simmons.
Ralph E. Prime, George A. Mitchell, James Sheridan, Henry
Wicker, George Hitchcock, Charles Fortescue, Benjamin Sullivan,
William Sweeney (dead), Casper Ryer (dead), James Brown (dead),
David Crofut, George Post, John G. Peene and Charles Allen were
in the battle of Big Bethel, the first engagement of the war fought in
line of battle — also in many skirmishes which preceded the battle.
The Fifth Regiment was engaged in the battle of Big Bethel, the
siege of Yorktown, the battles of Williamsburg, Hanover Court-
House, Mechanicsville, Gaines's Mill, Peach Orchard, Charles City
Cross-Roads, Malvern Hill, Second Bull Run, South Mountain,
Antietam, Blackford's Ford, Petersburg, Chancellorsville, &c.
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THE INFANTRY STATUE.
The studies and drawings for this statue were made by J. E. Kelly, of
New-York. The soldier is shown at " iix bayonets." The attitude exhibits
life and action. The face is stem, and marked by determination. The
whole bearing of the figure shows expectation of an immediate charge
upon the enemy, and recalls to every old soldier the grim features of war.
Inscriptions :
PATRIOTISM.
TO HONOR THE
MEN OF YONKERS
WHO FOUGHT TO
SAVE THE UNION.
1861 - 186S.
SLAVERY ABOLISHED.
Note. — Xo part of the Monument gave the Association so much eoneem as the statues.
The original drafts submitted were tame and expressionless, while the Association desired
vigor and earnest, warlike action. After much thought and labor, and aided by artists of
recognized ability, success was attained. It is rare, indeed, that a group of five statues
are so uniformly approved.
The four bronze statues were modeled by Lorado Taft, of Chicago, and cast by the
American Bronze Company of Chicago. They are warranted to be of the best standard
and quality — ninety-five per cent, copper and five per cent. tin. Each is seven feet high.
CHAPTER II.
COMPANY A, SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT
NEW- YORK VOLUNTEERS.
The Capture of the First Cannon, at Hanover Court-House—
The Westchester Chasseurs — Their Record from Official
Archives.
ON the fifteenth day of April, 1861, Fort Sumter capitulated,
and on the sixteenth day of the same month the President's
call for troops reached Albany. A large and patriotic meeting was
held at Farrington Hall, Yonkers, on the evening of April 17, at
which volunteers were called for. In response to this call, over
one hundred young men were enrolled to serve in defense of the
flag and to preserve the Union. Of this number several joined the
Fifth New- York Volunteers, while the remainder, about ninety,
organized into a company which was known as Company A, Seven-
teenth New- York Volunteers, and which was mustered into the
United States service on the 20th of May, 1861, to serve two years,
unless sooner discharged.
28 YONKEIiS ly THE liEBELLIOX.
This company, which was the first to leave Yonkers for the seat
of war, and was composed exclusively of Yonkers men, captured,
at Hanover Court-House, the first cannon taken by the Army of
the Potomac. The company was mustered out of the United States
service at the expiration of its term of enlistment, June 2, 1863.
The majority of those mustered out reenlisted and returned to the
war. We append items, culled from various records, relating to
this company.
The following is the record taken from the official archives of the
War Department, and from the State card attached to the flags of
the Seventeenth Regiment New- York Volunteers, at Albany, N. Y.:
First. — National Flag, silk, embroidered with number of Regiment. Much worn.
Spear-head gone. Presented to the Regiment by eight lady friends of Col. H. S.
Lansing.
Second.— Regimental Banner, white silk, painted on one side with arms of the
State of New- York, and Seventeenth Regiment New-York Volunteers. On the
other side, an eagle, shield, and number of Regiment. Staflf, with plate inscribed :
"Presented to the Westchester Chasseurs by the Ladies of Westchester County,
May, 1801."
Third.— Regimental Hanuer, blue silk, painted with arms of the City of Xew-
York and inscribed: "Seventeenth Kigimcnt N. Y. V. Presented by the City of
New-York." Original staff gone.
Tlie Seventeenth Kcginient, .sonu-times known as the Westchester
Chasseurs, was organized in the city of New-York in the spring of
1861. It was composed of four companies from Westchester County,
one from Rockland, two from New-York City, one from Wayne,
one from Wyoming, jni.l one from Clieiiango. It left for the seat
of wiir .luiie, lS(il, ;iih1 pjirlicipat.'d in tlie siege of Yorktown, and
battk'S of Hanover Court-lluu.<e, wliere it captured the first cannon
COMPANY A, SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT. 29
taken from the enemy by the Army of the Potomac, Groveton
(known as the second battle of Bull Run), where it lost 13 oflScers
and 250 men, killed and wounded, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and
Chancellorsville.
It was mustered out in the spring of 1863, after two years'
service, was immediately reorganized for three years' service, and
took the field in September, being the first of the thirty-nine old
regiments to report for duty.
" Honors of the Empire State in the War of the Rebellion," by
Thomas S. Townsend, compiler of "The Library of National
Records," on page 292 says :
SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT WESTCHESTER CHASSEURS.
The Regiment was commanded by Colonel H. S. Lansing, with Thomas F. Mon-is
as Lieutenant-Colonel. When Lieutenant-Colonel Morris resigned in 1862, Nel-
son B. Barti-am became his successor. The Seventeenth and a Massachusetts
Regiment constituted the entire infantry force under General Stoneman on the
Peninsula, when he made that hasty, timely, and terrible march.
At Hanover Court-House the Seventeenth took one of the enemy's guns.
General Butterfield spoke -of the splendid advance of the Brigade, led by the Seven-
teenth and Forty-Fom-th New- York, at the battle of Groveton. At the battle of
Bull Run no less than f om- color-bearers lost their lives in defense of the flag ; it
was saved and rigged to a new staff ; was retiu'ned to the Common Council of New-
York as a proof of the valor of the Regiment. The Regiment lost over 200 men at
Bull Run out of 550 who went into the battle.
30 YONKEIiS IX THE HKBELLIOX.
MUSTER-OUT ROLL.
Officers.
Charles H. Smith, Captain.
George Reynolds, Lieutenant, discharged on account of disability
January 30, 1862.
RoMEYN BoGARDUS, Ensign, resigned August 8, 18G1.
JLvRTix SKt'LiA', First Sergeant, wounded August 30, 18G2, at the
battle of Bull Run, made Second Lieutenant.
John C. Coates, Sergeant.
Edwin James, Sergeant.
Benjamin C. Nodine, Sergeant, wounded August 30, 1862.
Edwin Cumberbeach, Corporal, made Sergeant.
John Nolan, Corporal.
AiiFRED Bowler, Corporal, made Sergeant.
Willlam J. TowNSEND, Corporal.
Jacob A. Glazier, Musician.
Richard Cook, Musician, wounded August 30, 18(i2.
AiNswoRTH, John, discharged on ac- Cain, Michael, wounded August 30,
count of disability August 29, 1861. 1862.
AiNSWORTH, Jo.SEPH, discharged on ac- Carll, James, made Corporal.
count of disability January 3, 1863. Carroll, Willlam, wounded.
Amsby, Marion. Cavanagh, Thomas, discharged on ac-
Archer, Thomas O., discharged on ac- count of disability November 11, 1861.
count of disability September 20, 1861. Cawley, Thomas, wounded August 30,
Avery, William. 1862 ; died September 29, 1862.
Barclay, John. Colwell, Atkins.
Bell, George. Coxnell, William, made Corjwral ;
Bragg, Willlvm. wounded August 3(1. I,s(i2.
Brazil, James, died March 24, IS(J2. Connkli.v. Thomas, kilUd August .Ml,
Bromley, James. 1862.
Brooks, George. Delany', Daniel, killed August 30, 1862.
Brown, Charles A. Donahue, John, woimded August 30,
Burns, Jeremiah. 1862.
COMPANY A, SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT.
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Fisher, Philip.
Flood, Peter, wounded August 30,
1862.
FoLKER, William, wounded Aug-ust 30,
1862.
Foster, Jajies W.
Foster, William W., made Corporal;
captured August 30, 1862.
Garvin, Frank, wounded August 30,
1862.
Glasier, Newcomb B.
Hampson, Eli.
Hampson, Samuel.
HoRTON, Theron R., wounded August
30, 1862.
EJiowLES, William.
Kohler, John, wounded August 30,
1862.
Lawrence, Thomas 0., wounded Au-
gust 30, 1862.
Leary, John S.
Leek, Joseph.
Lesnon, Daniel.
Lobdell, Walter C.
LoGUE, Bernard.
Major, Garrett G., wounded June 30,
1862, and August 30, 1862.
Malloy, Thomas.
Marian, John.
McCabe, Dennis.
McCaul, Thomas.
McNamara, John.
Mills, Thomas.
Murphy, Cornelius, captured August
30, 1862.
NoDiNE, Edward.
NoDiNE, Peter, wounded August 30,
1802.
O'Keefe, Patrick, transferred Jidy 1,
1862, to Company E.
O'Rourke, John, transferred July 16,
1862, to Company E.
O'SuLLivAN, Daniel, transferred July
16, 1862, to Company E.
Plunkett, John.
Rice, Joseph, transferred Januaiy 10,
1862, to Company D.
Satzger, Charles C, made Corporal.
Shotts, John C.
Simmonds, Edward.
Tansey, Matthew.
Terry, Thomas F.
Walter, William.
Watson, John, died July 20, 1863.
Welsh, Morris F., made Corporal ;
killed August 30, 1862.
Whiting, John B., made Corporal ; cap-
tured August 30, 1862.
The following joined the Company after muster
Andrews, Joseph.
Aebuckle, William.
Austin, James.
Beardsley, E. H., First Lieuteuaut.
Beckett, Thomas, Captain, wounded
August 30, 1862.
Bell, George, No. 2.
Blauvelt, Isaac D., killed August 30,
1862.
Bowes, Benjamin, discharged on ac-
count of disability, January 9, 1862.
Brady. Charles.
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YON KK lis IX THE UK BELLI OS.
Bretenshaw, Joshua, wounded.
Brown, Joseph, transferred to Company
G, One Hundred and Forty-Sixth
Regiment New- York Infantry Vol-
unteers.
Carny, Michael.
Clark, Abner H.
Clark, Peter, wounded August 30,
1802, age 32.
Clark, Peter, wounded August 30,
1862, age 20.
Coffey, Michael.
Cook, W. H., discharged on account of
disability. May 30, 1862.
CosTELLO, John.
Craft, Isaac, wounded December IG,
1862.
CuLLiN, Paul, died September 2, 1861.
Doran, John.
Fenner, Henry D., wounded August 30,
1862.
Ferguson, Thomas.
Fitch, Charles W., Com. Sergeant.
Foley, T. Vincent, Captain, twice
wounded August 30, 1862.
Fox, Jajies, Second Lieutenant.
Gallagher, Martin.
Hardy, John R.
Harrison, Bernard, wounded August
30, 1862.
Hill, Thomas, Sergeant.
Hughes, Patrick.
Irving, Arthur.
Ives, Wiltjam. killed August 30,
1862.
Kemp, Joseph, wounded August 30,
1862.
KiLi.KiiN, Daniel, made Sergeant.
McNamara, John, No. 2, made Cor-
poral.
Mills, John, made Corporal.
Mitchell, Peter, captured at Manassas
August 30, 1862.
Mitchell, Thomas, transferred to the
Twelfth Regiment New-York Volun-
teers, May 14, 1862. Died August 20,
1878.
MoFFATT, Andrew, wounded August
30, 1862.
Murphy, Willlvm, transferred to Com-
pany G, One Hundred and Forty-
Sixth Regiment New-York Infantry
Volunteers, June 25, 1863.
Neil, Walter B.
NoDiNE, Frederick A., Sergeant, trans-
ferred to Company G, One Huneb'ed
and Forty-Sixth Regiment New-York
Infantry Volunteers, June 2, 1863.
O'Mara, John, Sergeant.
Seddin, Willlvm, Musician.
Shaw, Willlam.
Sleight, C. T.
Smith, Irvlng D., Second Lieutenant,
transferred to Company F, Seven-
teenth Regiment New-York Volun-
teers, January 1, 1863.
Stanspield, Thomas.
Taylor, De Witt.
Thompson, George W., transfenvd to
One Hundred and Forty-Si.Mh Regi-
ment New- York Infantry Volunteei-s,
Marcli 8, 1H(>3.
Van Okden, Alfred, transferred t<>
Company G, One Huiuhvd and F>>r-
tietlj Regiment New-York Infantry
Volunteei"s. .Imu' 26, ISii.'f.
CHAPTER III.
SIXTH NEW- YORK VOLUNTEER ARTILLERY.
Union Defence Committee — Colonel William H. Morris — Sol-
dierly Bearing and Discipline — Heroic Fighting Qualities
— Colonel J. Howard Kitching — List of Battles — Com-
mended in Special Orders.
IN the summer of the year 1862, when the numerous reverses to
the Union arms had caused a profound anxiety among the
people of the North as to the outcome of the great conflict, in
obedience to a call from the President of the United States for
three hundred thousand volunteers for three years, the Hon.
E. D. Morgan, Governor of the State of New- York, appointed a
Union Defence Committee for the Eighth Senatorial District of
the State, then consisting of the counties of Westchester, Eockland,
and Putnam — the names of Lewis G. Morris of Fordham,
Chauncey M. Depew of Peekskill, Gouverneur Morris of Morrisania,
William H. Robertson of Katonah, Saxton Smith of Putnam, and
Edward F. Shonnard of Yonkers being among those so chosen.
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34 YONKERS IX THE REBELLION.
This Committee was charged with the duty of obtaining rein-
forcements for the Union Avmj'. It began its work by promptly
effecting the organization in that district of an infantry regiment
of ten full companies of more than one hundred men each, enlisted
to serve for three years, which was designated by the authorities of
the State of New-York as the One Hundred and Thirty-Fifth New-
York Volunteer Infantry, and was named by the Committee, The
Anthony Wayne Guard.
Those who thus associated themselves together in defence of the
Union were prompted by the same true spirit of patriotism which
animated their forefathers in the "War of Independence, At that
jjeriod in the war no large bounties had been offered to stimulate
enlistment, and these men, who so promptly responded to the call
of the President, fairly represented the best bone and sinew and
many of the most substantial families of the three counties.
The following are the names of tlie original line officers and of
the plac(-s where they ovgaiii/cd their coiiij.anies :
Company A, Pefkxkill : Captain A. A. Crookstox, Lieutenants (iEuKOK W.
Smith and Richard M. Gilleo.
Company Ji, White Plains: Captain E. W. Anherson, Lieutenants Thomas W.
Dick and Horton R. Pratt.
Company C, West Farms : Captain B. B. Valextixe, Lieutenants .James Smith
and George C. Kibbe.
Company D, Somers : Captain Eowahd .Joxes, Lieutenants W. S. Sckiiinkk and
Platt Benedict.
Company E, Port Chester: Captain C. H. Palmer, Lieutenants \V. T. Mukse and
FoRDHAM Morris (son of Lowns G. Morris of the Couiiuittee).
Company F, Yonkcrs: Captain EnMUXK Y. MoRRIs, Lieutenants Samiki, Bassktt
and Henry A. Chadeayne.
Company G, Carmel: Captain Weuster Smith, Lieutenants Stei-hex Baker and
Charles F. ILvzex.
SIXTH NEW-YOBK VOLUNTEEB ARTILLERY. 35
Companxj H, Morrisania: Captain H. B. Hall (wounded), Lieutenants David
Harmel (mortally wounded) and Gouverneur Morris, Jr. (son of Gouverneur
Morris of the Committee).
Company I, Sing Sing: Captain Clark Peck, Lieutenants Charles C. Hyatt
and J. H. Ashton.
Company K, Nyack : Captain WiLSON Defendorp, Lieutenants John Davidson
and Frederic Shonnard of Yonkers (son of Edward F. Slionnard of the Com-
mittee).
*
THE YONKERS COMPANY.
The following named non-commissioned officers and men, all of
Yonkers, were mustered into the United States service in Company
F, on September 2, 1862.
Officers;
Thomas R. Price, First Sergeant.
Patrick Kelly, Second Sergeant.
Abel Waters, Foui-th Sergeant.
Samuel B. Kniffen, Fifth Sergeant.
John J. Brady, First Corporal.
James T. Earle, Second Corporal.
James E. Beasley, Third Corporal, killed.
Benjamin Price, Foui-th Coi-poral.
Judson Abbott, Fifth Corporal.
Edgar C. Nodine, Sixth Corporal.
Privates.
Archer, Nathaniel, killed. Bragg, William, killed.
Barnes, Frederick E., died in hospital. Brown, James.
Bennett, Michael. Burke, James.
Boyle, James. Cain, Joseph, wounded.
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YOXKElm IS THE REBELLION.
Casey, Daniel.
Cahkoll, Jajies.
Collin, Patrick.
CoNLiN, Anthony.
CouGHLiN, John.
Donahue, Michael.
Foley, John.
FoRMAN, Schuyler B.
Gilbert, James D.
Goodwin, Francis.
Gorman, Patrick.
Hallett, Demetrius.
Hamilton, William, taken prisoner,
died of wounds.
Harris, Jacob L.
Henry, John.
Hunt, James.
Kiley, WiLLLiM, killed.
Keanily, Jeremiah.
Kelly, Timothy.
Lane, Thomas, died of wounds.
Laphaji, Solon, wounded.
Lal'NY, Thomas.
Lind.say, William.
LouNSBURY, Paul.
McGann, Philip, killed.
McMahon, John.
Morris, John T.
NoRRis, Michael.
O'Doxneli,, John.
O'RouRKE, Michael, wounded.
PiLSON, J.V3IES.
Pope, Willlam, dead.
Reed, James.
Reiff, Jacob.
Rein, Geor(;e, wounded and
died in prison.
Ryan, Thomas.
Sherwood, James E., died in
prison of wounds.
Sherwood, Richard H.
Smith, Thomas A.
Thompson, William, killed.
Vail, William.
Vandervlant, Cornelius.
Van Wart, Stephen.
VoLZ, George.
Watson, Williaji.
Welsh, James.
Welsh, Richard.
Whitlock, Aaron, dead.
It is not now possible to give an accurate statement of the names
of the killed, wounded, and missing, or even of all those who were
members of this Com] la 1 1 y 1 1 mi 1 1 <r t hese throe yeans' service. Almost
to the time of the muster no iiernianent fiehl-ofiicers were cho.><en,
biit, pending their appointment, Lewis G.Morris, of the Committee,
acted as the Provisional Colonel.
SIXTH NEW-YOBK VOLUNTEER AUTILLEBY. 37
The experiences of actual war having demonstrated the necessity
for liaving either thoroughly educated or veteran soldiers as field-
officers of volunteer regiments, the Colonelcy was first offered to
Thomas Arden, of Cold Spring, a graduate of West Point. Upon
his declination, the position was tendered to and accepted by Cap-
tain William Hopkins Morris, also a graduate of West Point, and
an officer then in active service in the Army of the Potomac, as
Chief of Staff to Major-General John J. Peck.
Captain Ralph E. Prime, then of White Plains, now of Yonkers,
a gallant officer of the Fifth New- York Volunteers, who had been
wounded in one of the battles on the Peninsula under McClellan,
was appointed its Lieutenant-Colonel. Captain Prime being unable
to immediately secure his transfer from the War Department,
J. Howai'd Kitching, of Dobbs Ferry, a bi'illiant young officer in
the Second New- York Light Artillery, who had also been wounded
on the Peninsula, was made the acting Lieutenant-Colonel, until
Captain Prime could obtain his transfer.
Captain Prime having finally decided not to accept the position,
J. Howard Kitching became the actual Lieutenant-Colonel, and a
few months later, after the promotion of Colonel Morris to the rank
of Brigadier-General, he became the Colonel of the Regiment, and,
either as its Colonel or the commander of the Brigade of which it
formed a part, he led it in all of the battles in which it was engaged
up to and including Cedar Creek, where he received a wound which
proved fatal.
J. H. Robinson, of New-York City, was chosen the Major, liut re-
signed after a few weeks' service. Charles H. Leonard, of Rockland,
was appointed Adjutant, Frederick Tompkins, also of Rockland, the
Quartermaster, and Jared G. Wood, M. D., of Brewsters, Surgeon.
38 YoxKKiis IX THE hehelliox.
The Regiment was first assembled in Yonkers on or about August
20, 18fj'2, in the old building on the river bank south of the Railroad
Station, then known as the Bedstead Factory, but now as part of the
Plough Works. The first dress-parade took place in the open
fields then existing south of the old Pistol Factory, now known as
the Carpet and Hat Works of the John T. Waring Company. The
Regiment was not then fully uniformed, and was without arms or
other equipments, except that it had received a full stand of
National and State colors, which was then for the first time un-
furl..!.
Captain William H. Morris was, on that occasion, presented to
the Regiment as its Colonel, by Lewis G. Morris, iu a brief address
which elo(iuently expressed the Committee's appreciation of the
great responsibility resting upon it in the choice of the field-ofiicers,
and the great care taken in the selections which had been made. He
then gi-acefuUy touched upon the salient features of the l)rilliant
career of Captain Morris, and closoil Viy warmly (•iiiuiin'iiiling liim
to the confidence of the Regiment.
Colonel Morris made a soldierly reply, expressing his pride aud
pleasure in being permitted to command a Regiment composed of
his lifelong neighbors and friends, closing with the announcement
that the mustering officers would arrive on September 2, and that
after the formalities of the muster into the service of the United
States, the Regiment was expected to proceed immediately to the
seat of war — an announcement that was n^eeived with cheers.
After the ceremonies of the muster by Cajitaiu W. S. Ivlgcrtoii,
United States Army, in the presence of Cliaun.-fy M. Drprw and
Lewis G-. Morris of tlic rninn Drl'mc.' ("nnimitte«\ the (•(.niiiiand
was rnibarkc<l u]>om a liarge, taken to Perth Amboy. and theiK-c by
SIXTH NEW -YORK VOLUNTEER ARTILLERY. 39
vail by way of Philadelphia to Baltimore, where it was ordered to
report to Major-General Wool. It was a period of intense excite-
ment, because of the misfortunes to the Union arms and the then
approaching invasion of the North by the Rebel army. Philadel-
phia itself had been shocked by the close approach to its suburbs
of a band of Rebel rough-riders, who had safely ridden around the
city of Baltimore, flanking our forces stationed there, and had made
vigorous attempts to destroy the railroad bridges between Balti-
more and Philadelphia.
Few such scenes were ever witnessed in any Northern city dur-
ing the war as those participated in by this Regiment and the
other bodies of troops marching through the city at that exciting
period. The streets through which they passed from the New
York to the Baltimore depots were crowded with people of all ages
and conditions, all in a state of frantic excitement, vying one with
another in eager efforts to swell the grand proportions of the wel-
coming ovation.
At Baltimore the Regiment was assigned by Major-Geueral Wool
to a Camp of Instruction, where, under Colonel Morris's masterly
handling, ably assisted by Lieutenant-Colonel Kitching and the
other officers, it made such i"apid progress in its military duties that
General Wool made public mention of " its soldierly bearing and
its proficiency in drill and discipline," and upon his recommenda-
tion the War Department raised it to the Artillery service, and de-
signated it the Sixth New- York Volunteer Artillery. A third Bat-
talion and two additional Company organizations were added, viz. :
Company L, Cold Spring: Captain A. B. Truesdell, Lieutenants George D.
Spencer and William G. Ferris.
40 YONKEIiS IX rilK UKliKLLlOX.
Company M, Elmira: Captain MiAL R. Pierce, Lieutenants James T. Price and
C. B. Robinson. This Company did not, however, join the Reffiment until early in
the sprinp of 1864.
The Regimeut, although wearing the i-ed triiximings of the Artil-
lery service and having the peculiar organization of that branch,
nevertheless during its whole three years of arduous service with
the Eighth Corps, with the Army of the Potomac, with the Army of
the James, and with Sh.'iidaii's Army of tlic Sliciiandoali, (•ontimicil
to serve as Infantry.
On and after December 26, 18()2, the Kegimeut was sent to
Harper's Ferry, in detachments, upon the receipt by Major-Gen-
eral Schenck, who had in the mean time succeeded General Wool in
the command of the Eighth Army Corps, of the following despatch :
War Department, Washington, December 26, 1862 .
Major-General Schenck, Baltimore, Md. :
You must defend Harper's Ferry with your command. If necessary, concentrate
your forces there. Almost everything available about Washington has been sent
to General Burnside. Keep me advised of the enemy's movements.
H. W. Halleck, General-in-Chiff.
After six months or more of very varied service in the Shenan-
doah Valley with other troops, guarding the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, performing skirmishing, scouting, and general outpost
duties, the Regiment formally joined the Army of the Potomac
during the Gettysburg campaign, ]>ecoming pai-t of French's Third
Corps, which was held in the neighborhood of Frederick City as a
reserve to protect Washington, by the onlcrs of the War Dcjiart-
mcnt.
'I'hf K'r,-:iinciil, tirst with (Iciwral Morris's Briga<lf of the Third
Division, Third .\riiiy Corps, then witli tlie K'cscrve Artillery, an<l
SIXTH NEW-YOBK VOLVNTEEB ARTILLERY. 41
afterward with Ajres's Division of the Fifth Corps, participated
in all of the campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, from Gettys-
burg, in July, 1863, to August 13, 1864, in the siege of Petersburg,
including the Bristoe Station, the Mine Run, and the great Grant
campaigns, and has probably the unique record of having served in
battle with every Corps of the Army of the Potomac, with Sheri-
dan's Army in the Shenandoah, and with the Army of the James.
The following is a list of its more important engagements with the
enemy:
With thb Army of the Potomac. —Wapping Heights, July 23, 1863. The Grant
campaign — WUderness, May 5, 6, and 7, 1864 ; Spottsylvania, May 8, 9, 10, 11, and
12, 1864. Lieutenant-Colonel W. P. Fox, in his work entitled " Regimental Losses
in the Civil War," states that the Regiment was one of thirty-four regiments
at the same time engaged which suffered the heaviest losses of any in the Army of
the Potomac on those days. Hanis Farm, Spottsylvania, May 19, 1864. In recogni-
tion of the services of the troops engaged on this occasion, the following order was
issued :
Headquarters Army of the Potomac,
May 20, 1864, 8 a. m.
The Major-General Commanding desires to express his satisfaction with the good
conduct of Tyler's Division and Kitching's Brigade [this Brigade consisted of two
regiments, the Sixth and the Fifteenth New- York Artillery, both acting as In-
fantry] of Heavy Artillery, in the affair of yesterday evening. The gallant man-
ner in which those commands, the greater portion being for the first time under fire,
met and checked the persistent attacks of a Corps of the enemy led by one of its
ablest Generals, justifies the commanding General in the special commendation of
troops who henceforth will be relied upon, as were the tried veterans of the Second
and Fifth Corps, at the same time engaged.
By command of Major-General Meade,
S. S. Williams.
Battles at the Ford of the North Anna River, May 23, 24, 25, 26, and 27. In these
battles the Sixth Artillery lost more in killed and wounded than any other regiment
in the Army of the Potomac at the same time engaged. ( Vide " Regimental Losses
in the Civil War.") Bethesda Church, May 30.
The New- York Herald of June 1 said, in reference to one of these
battles: "A despatch from the Army of the Potomac, dated on
42 yosKEKs ry the hebellios.
Tuesday i)ight, says that the day before the Fifth Corps, advanciug
from the Havre's Store toward Bethesda Church, drove the enemy
about two miles. At sunset, while the men were engaged in dig-
ging rifle-pits, Rhodes's and Early's Divisions made an attack on
Warren's right flank, causing him to fall back from his first line.
The enemy then advanced and charged the second liue. Kitching's
Brigade of Heavy Artillery w^as posted there, and opened a heavy
fire in conjunction with batteries on both flanks, which nearly de-
molished the Rebel column of attack. The enemy fell back in ter-
rible disorder, and left tlieit- (lead and wounded on the field."
Meehanicsville Pike, June 1 ; Mechanicsville Pike (second position), June 2 ; battle
of Cold Harbor, June .3 ; Cliickahominy, near Long Bridge, June 13 ; assault on
Petei"sburgr, June 18 ; more or less continuously engaged during June 19, 20, 21,
22, 23, 24, and 25, 18G4; siege of Petersburg, June 23 to August 13, 18&4, including
tlie Mine Explosion on July 30. 18(U.
With General Sheridan's Army in the Shenandoah Valley.— Battle of
Cedar Creek, near Winchester, October 14, 1864. J. Howard Kitching, the beloved
Colonel of the Regiment, here received a wound which caused his death ; Major
Jones and Lieutenant Raspljerry were killed ; and tlie command of the Regiment
devolved upon Major George C. Kibbe, a gallant and efficient officer.
With the Army of the James.— Defences of Bermuda Hundred; sharp en-
gagement, January 22, 1865; repelled assault, January 24; repelled assault on
picket-line, Febi-uary 13. 1865.
Licutfiiaiit-Cokiucl George C. Kiblic, who had ably and irallaiitly
commanded the Regiment since Colonel J. Howard Kitihinii^ was
wounded, was commissioned Colonel March 17, lS(;r). The last time
the Regiment was under fire was in a liriel' enij;;ip'nii'iit at ISerniuila
llniMlie.l. .\i.iil •_', lS(i.-).
SIXTH NEW-YORK VOLUNTEER ARTILLERY. 43
The original members of the One Hundi'ed and Thirty-Fifth Regi-
ment New- York Volunteer Infantry were mustered out of the United
States service June 27, 1865. The remainder, with a Battalion of
the Tenth New- York Artillery, became the consolidated Sixth New-
York Artillery, of which Lieutenant-Colonel Stephen Baker, of the
Sixth Artillery, was chosen Colonel, on account of brave and meri-
torious services, and was mustered out July 13, 1865, after having
done General Provost-Marshal duty about Petersbui'g subsequent
to the surrender of Lee.
The following letter was recently received from Colonel Wm. F.
Fox, author of the famous woi'k entitled " Regimental Losses During
the Civil War," acknowledging a mistake in his treatment of the
record of the Sixth New- York Artillery, by which the Regiment
was omitted from the list of his selected " Three Hundred Fight-
ing Regiments," a position to which it was entitled by " the ti'ail
of blood."
August 1, 1891.
Major Feedebic Shonnard, Yonkers, N. Y. :
Bear Sir : In reply I would say that there is no question but that your old Regi-
ment, the Sixth Artillery, was a fighting Regiment in every sense of the word, and
I am fully aware of its heroic record. Another edition of the work is to be pub-
lished soon, in which the omission will be rectified
Yours fraternally. William F. Fox.
The following extract from the report of Brigadier-Greneral
Henry J. Hunt, Chief of Artillery, Ai-my of the Potomac, dated
October 31, 1864, in which the Regiment is honorably mentioned,
will be of interest:
The Reserve Artillery, May 4, 1864, under the command of Colonel H. S. Bui-ton,
Fifth United States Artillery, consisted of two Regiments of foot Artillery, — the
Sixth New- York, Colonel J. Howard Kitching; the Fifteenth New -York, Colonel
44 YOyKEli.S IX THE UKBELUOX.
L. Schirmer,— twelve batteries of field artillerj-, twenty-six Napoleons, eighteen
3-inch, twelve 10-pounder, and six 20-pounder Parrotts,and eight 24-pounder Coe-
horn mortars. The troops of the reserve were organized into three brigades. The
first, under the command of Colonel J. Howard Kitcliing, Sixth New- York Artillery,
consisted of the Sixth and Fifteenth New- York Regiments, six battalions of foot
ArtUlery armed as Infantry, 84 officers, and 2,901 men. This Brigade formed the
escort and furnished the guards for the reserve and the park attached to it, and
was at all times disposable as a reserve and to reinforce the Corjjs in battle.
Ill this way it did valuable service, taking its full .share of the marching and
fighting of the anny in addition to its special duties.
That afternoon (the 7th), the Reserve Artilleiy marched to Piney Branch Church,
which place it reached on the morning of the 8th, when Kitching's Brigade of foot
Artillerj- was ordered to report to Major-General Hancock, at Todd's Tavern.
General Hancock ordered it back to the reserve the same night, and again called
for it the next morning. From this time this Brigade was marched to and fro from
one Corps to another, being either always in action or on the march, until it was
finally, on the breaking up of the reserve, attached to the Fifth Corps, Major-
General Warren.
Tile survivors of tliis l)ravc Rcgiiiifiit, tlic iiifinlicrs of wliich so
signally flistinguished tlicinsclvcs liy their patrintic promptness in
leaving their homes to risk tlieir lives in the defence of tlie Gov-
ernment, and in their conduct on many havd-fought battle-fields
of the war, again made manifest their sterling (jualities as men,
and their patriotism as citizens, by tlieir orderly return to the
avocations of peace.
On September 2, 1890, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the mus-
t.r-in to tlie riiited States service, the first reunion of tlie
Kegiineut, was held in Turn Hall, Yonkers. Over three hundred
survivors attended, clasped hands for the liist time in a iiuartei- of
a ci'iitury, made s])eerlies, sang songs, laughed, crie<l, elieered, and
mibraced carli otii.r around the supper-table, after having organ-
ized tlieniselves into a soeietv entitled Tin- Frati'rnitv of the Sur-
SIXTH NEW-YORK VOLUNTEER ARTILLERY. 45
vivors of the Sixth New -York Volunteer Artillery, and elected the
following officers :
Frederic Shonnard. President, late Major U. S. V.
George C. Kibbe, Fii-st Vice-President, late Colonel U. S. V.
Stephen Baker, Second Vice-President, late Colonel U. S. V.
Henry B. Hall, Third Vice-President, late Captain and Brevet
Major U. S. V.
William H. Morris, Fourth Vice-President, late Brigadier-General
and Brevet Major-General U. S. V.
J. B. Eakins, Treasurer, late Sergeant U. S. V.
John Smith, Jr., Secretary, late Lieutenant U. S. V.
John Forsyth, Resident Secretary, late Sergeant U. S. V.
Samuel Bassett, Corresponding Secretary, late Captain U. S. V.
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ON THE NORTH SIDE.
THE ARTILLERY STATUE.
This statue was designed aud drawn by J. E. Kelly, of New- York. It
presents a gunner in action looking attentively to note in the distance
the effect of a shot just fired. Fidelity of conception, lofty motive, con-
scientious, skilful execution, and high artistic qualities are conspicuous.
Inscriptions :
(Under the Statue)
ENDURANCE.
THE UNION IS
THE PALLADIUM OF
OUR SAFETY
AND PROSPERITY.
CREDIT MAINTAINED.
CHAPTER IV.
THE THIRTY-DAYS MEN.
Captain John Davis Hatch's Company — Vai^iant Service at Foet
McHenry, Baltimoee — Captain John Padden's Company —
Garrison Duty at Fort Richmond, New- York Harbor.
CAPTAIN hatch's COMPANY.
ON the 8tli day of July, 1863, the thirty-days meu enlisted by
John Davis Hatch were mustered into the ser\nce of the
United States, at Yonkers, and did valiant service at Fort McHenry,
Baltimore, Maryland. Their full official designation was Company
H, Seventeenth Regiment, National Guard State New -York. The
following names are copied fi-om the muster-in roll :
Officers.
John Davis Hatch, Captain.
James Stewart, Second Lieutenant.
Edward P. Bobbins, First Sergeant.
Stephen R. Struthers, Second Sergeant.
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YOSKERS /A' IHE REBELLION.
John McClain, Third Sergeant.
Walter H. Paddock, Fourth Sergeant.
Robert A. Getty, First Corporal.
Co>r\VAY PiLSON, Second Corporal.
JosiAH Rich, Jr., Third Corporal.
William Macparlane, Fourth Corporal.
John Cahill, Musician.
James Kennedy, Musician.
Adams, Charles H.
Archer, Samuel.
Archer, William S.
Baird, Edward P.
Baird, William C.
Bashford, James, Jr.
Beale, Willllm R.
Belknai', Ethelbert.
Bell, Alonzo.
Blauvelt, Daniel, Jr.
Bro\vn, James H. B.
Brown, Haviland S.
Campbell, John C.
Campbell, John C, Jr.
Chamberlain, George.
Chamberlain, Isaac E.
Coen, Thomas F.
CoEN, John J.
EicKEMEYKR, Rl-DOLK.
Fisher, Philip W.
Frisbie, George H.
Garrison, George 0.
Haight, Henry.
Haley, Thomas H.
Jenley, John W.
Morrison, DA\^D M.
Murphy, John.
Odell, James B.
Otis, Charles R.
Porter, William B.
Post, James V.
Proseus, Joseph L.
Radclijt, Abram S
Redding, John F.
Rice, Benjajiin.
Sawyer, Benjamin F., Jr.
Sawy'er, Henry C.
Silke, Freeman J.
Smith, Samuel L.
Thayer, Stephen H.. Jr.
TH0M.S0N, William.
Tindall, Richard B.
Tyler, Edward H.
Von Storch, Henry F.
Ward, James.
Waring, Cscar.
Wilcox, Richard E.
WiLSEA, James P.
Woodworth, James G.
THE THIRTY-DAYS MEN. 53
CAPTAIN PADDEN\S COMPANY.
On the 4th of June, 1864, the thivty-days men enlisted by John
"W. Padden were mustered into the service of the United States, at
Yonkers, and marched the same day over historic ground on Val-
entine's Hill, to the village of Mount Vernon, where they found
transportation to Mamaroueck, at which place they joined their
Regiment. Their full official designation was Company B, Fif-
teenth Regiment, Sixth Brigade, National Guard, State New- York
Volunteers. On Sunday morning, June 5, 1864, the Fifteenth Regi-
ment sailed on a Government transport to Fort Richmond, New-
York Harbor, returning home July 6 the same year. The following
names are copied fi'om the muster-in roll:
Officers.
John W. Padden, Captain.
A. J. WiLLARD, First Lieutenant.
Clement T. Dcrgin, Second Lieutenant.
George W. Brown, First Sergeant.
Charles A. Chapin, Second Sergeant.
Robert B. Cantrell, Tliird Sergeant.
James Edie, Fourth Sergeant.
WiLLLAM E. Hindals, Fifth Sergeant.
James Keeler, First Corporal.
Alfred M. Bowler, Second Corporal.
Richard Edie, Third Corporal.
Jajies Gaffney, Fourth Coi-poral.
George C. Post, Fifth Coi-poral.
Mark Spencer, Sixth Corporal.
Joseph A. George, Seventh Corporal.
Albert Johnson, Eighth Coi-poral.
YONKEJiS IN THE liEBELLlON.
Prittiies.
Archer, Charles E.
BaKKK, .lAilES M.
Brady, Michael.
Brow-n, Caleb V.
Cahill, John.
Carv, Patrick.
Casuan, James.
Chamberlain, Charles W.
CiLVJiPNEY, Edward.
CoEN, John.
Coon, John W.
Crane, John.
Crowtheb, Timothy.
Daly, Micil^kl.
Daly, Thomas F.
Daly, Thomas J.
Danks, Eli L.
Donohue, Cil\rles.
DooLEY, John.
DooLucKTY, John.
DoiouERTY, John.
Ellor, Joseph.
Fisher, Charles R.
Fisher, Philip.
Fisher, William H.
Francis, Kellogo.
Gaury, Michael.
Gorman, John.
Gr^uiam, John
Greitz, Frederick.
Grunsbrall, Henry.
GuioN, William M.
Hallihan, John.
Ha.mpson, Thomas.
JdiiNSox, Charles L.
Jordan, Thomas.
Kennedy, James.
Kernan, James.
La^vhence, Chahles.
Lawrence, Thomas C.
Limbert, Benjamin.
Marshall, John.
McCready, Thomas.
Miller, Franklyn.
Mills, Joseph.
Mitchell, Benjamin.
Moody, Robert.
MoRUAN, Henry D.
Myers, Henry S.
Parkinson, George N.
Pethic, Charles.
Post, Charles J.
Post, Samuel.
Regan, Michael.
Ryan, Thomas.
Schneider, Frederick.
SiMMONDS, George.
SlJIMONS, WiLLUM.
Smith, Willlam.
Stephens, George.
Stevens, Edward.
Tansey, Roger.
Tracy, Patrick.
Van Tassell, S. C.
Wilsea, James P.
Wing, Michael.
Woodruff, Freukkkk H.
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CHAPTER V.
THE HOME GUARDS.
The Draft Riots in New- York — Yonkers Threatened — Dr.
Henry M. Baird on the Situation— The Home Guards Or-
ganized to Preserve Order and Protect Property — Watch-
Tower OF the First Presbyterian Church — "An Awkward
Squad" — Duties Defined by Frederick S. Cozzens — An
Arrest and Court Martial — Good Service at a Critical
Time.
DURING the draft riots in New- York, in July, 1863, the law-
less spirit reached Yonkers. A company of roughs from be-
low approached King's Bridge, with the intention, it was rumored,
of capturing the Star Arms Company's stock, in the building now
occupied by the John T. Waring Manufacturing Company. An-
other rumor was that the Croton Aqueduct was to be tapped.
There were indications of trouble among the quarrymeu at Tucka-
hoe, and avowed sympathy for the rioters in New- York, who were
in open rebellion against the laws, destroying private property and
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56 YOXKEIiS IX TlfK liEIiKLUOX.
assaulting, and even murdering, inoffensive people. The militia
organization had gone to the front to meet an emergoucy, while
lai-ge numbers of the heads of families were in the army battling
to save the Union. It is not strange that, under such circum-
stances, a general feeling of uneasiness was experienced.
A meeting was held in the store of Acker, Edgar & Co., which
resulted in the organization of the Home Guards, to preserve the
peace and protect persons and property. Dr. Henry M. Baird gives
the following account of the Guards and their work:
Judge Atkins is correct in his impression that I acted with the
Home Guards in the summer of 1863. I fear my services were of
no great account, and, indeed, the services of the entire Guard did
not amount to much more than to give a little courage to a some-
what despondent community. It was during the time of the "draft
riots" in New- York, which had cut off all communication by rail
with the metropolis. There were distinct rumors of a probable in-
vasion of Yonkers by men from the marble-quarries near Tuckahoe
who were expected to come in quest of pillage, taking advantage
of the absence of our Company, then posted on Federal Hill, Bal-
timore. My brothers, Edward and William, were with the Company.
To meet the emergency a goodly number of us met and drilled,
using Fan-iugton Hall, situated where Radford Building now is, as
our iieadquarters. 1 n'member that as a inilf wf were on duty
upon alternate nights.
One night a party of us, armed, patrolled tli<' distriet near the
Railroad Depot, where there were several engines brought uji from
New- York, to got them out of harm's way. Another night half a
dozen of us, under command of .ludge Atkins, slept in the untin-
THE HOME GUARDS. 57
ished stable on the present pi'operty of Mi-. William Allen Butler,
at Palisade avenue and High street, and repeatedly, during the
night, sent out parties of two or more to visit Hog Hill, and see
that all was quiet there.
Another night, Mr. William C. Waring, Sr., and I spent in the
tower of the First Presbyterian Church, taking turns in watching
for the signal we might receive to ring the great bell as an alarm
to call out all good citizens. The watchword had been given us in
all secrecy, and it was arranged that, should the messenger from
headquarters be unable to reach us, we should accept the word
shouted to us from the opposite side of the street as a sufficient
warrant for action.
The Home Guards were sworn as special constables. They were
divided into fom- Companies, and numbered over three hundred
and fifty men. Everett Clapp, then President of the village, was
active in organizing the force, and supplied them with carbines
from the Star Arms Cjtmpany. Lyman Cobb, Jr., acted as Secre-
tary, Thomas V. Morris was Commander, and Gardner P. Haws
was Adjutant.
Company A : Captain WiLLiAii MoNTGOMEEY, Lieutenants Frederick C. Oakley
and T. A. Atkins.
Company B: Captain Edgar Logan, Lieutenants J. W. Paddon and H. A.
Brownell.
Company C: Captain Henry A. Chadeayne, Lieutenants WiGO Fich and B. F.
Bunker.
Company B: Captain Sylvanus Mayo, Lieutenants A. J. Willaed and T. Hill.
A general order, issued by President Clapp, designated that Com-
pany A should meet weekly, at the armory in Farrington Hall, for
,-,8 YOXKEliS IX THE REBELLIOX.
drill, on Monday evening at 8 o'clock, Company B i>n Wi-diicsday
evening, Company C on Thursday evening, and ("oiiipany D on
Saturday evening.
At a meeting of the force held July 22, 1863, the object was
declared to be : When called upon by the village authorities to
protect property and preserve the peace; to execute all lawful
orders issued by the village authorities; to protect and uphold all
well-disposed persons who may be threatened with coercion or
spoliation by reason of their refusing to join riotous assemblages.
On the arrival of the carbines at the armory. President Clapp
put them in charge of Lyman Cobb, Jr., gave him the password,
and ordered him to watch over them until relieved, which would
be in the course of an hour or so. In the excitement of the time
the promised relief was forgotten. On visiting the armory next
morning, President Clapp found Mr. Cobb still on guard. " You
here yet!" was the exclamation. "I have obeyed orders," replied
Mr. Cobb. "Well," f^iiid the President, "you are a good sol-
dier." Explanations followed, and the circuinstanoes caused much
merament.
In addition to the Home Guards, a large force of employees was
organized to protect the Star Arms Comjiany's property, and that
force was well equipped with cannon, guns, pistols, &c., for effec-
tive service in case of attack. It seems altogether probable that
these precautions preventccl trouble tliat iniglit have resultctl in
the loss of life and ])roperty.
"It may be said," remarked one of the (Juards. "that tin' iMitire
body was an awkward squad, and the drills atfordt>d much amuse-
ment. The corporations of some were of aldermanic proportions,
yet it was insisted that thev should line front and ri'iir. Manv
THE HOME GUARDS. 59
could not keep step — and when commanded to step off with the
left foot, they would start off with the right. To see the Guards
go through the manual of arms was truly a comical sight. Still
the Home Guards served a very useful purpose."
Frederick S. Cozzens declared that it was the duty of the Guards
to defend the village at all hazards, and not to leave it except in
case of invasion by an enemy — and then, to get out on the double-
quick.
It is related that two of the Guards, oat on patrol duty on North
Broadway one night, saw a man with a bundle enter a barn under
what they considered suspicious circumstances. On capturing him
he proved to be a German, who declared, and no doubt truthfully,
that his only object in entering the barn was to seek shelter for
the night. However, the prisoner was taken to headquarters and
locked up. Next morning he was taken before the "Court Mar-
tial." A Judge- Advocate was on hand to prosecute, and the Court
mercifully assigned counsel to defend the prisoner's "liberty and
life." He was searchea^ and two matches were found in one of his
pockets.
" There ! " shouted the Judge- Advocate, with startling emphasis.
" What more do you want ? Do not those matches afford con-
clusive evidence that this person intended to fire the barn and blow
up Yonkers f "
The prisoner's counsel was earnest and eloquent in the defense
of his trembling client — but all to no purpose. The Court found
him guilty, and sentenced him to be shot.
" Mein Got ! " exclaimed the frightened German. " I lef New-
York to keep from bein' murdered — and I fin' you vos verse up
here dan dey vos down dere ! " His life was spared.
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YOyKEBS IN THE UEBELLIOS.
We have been unable to find the rosters of the Home Guarils, but
it is believed that the following gentlemen were among those who
united with their fellow-citizens to protect Yonkers at a critical
period :
AcKERMAN, James.
AcKERMAN, William G.
AcKERT, Nelson.
Andeksox, Willlam H.
ARrmiiALD, William.
Atkins, T. Astley.
Baird, Henry M.
Baldwin, Anson.
Barnes, Reuben.
Barry, Samuel S.
Bashford, James.
Belknap, Charles.
Bills, Orrix A.
Brewer, Rev. Darius R.
Brown, Henry.
Burns, jEREMLiii.
Chadeayne, Charles L.
Clapp, Everett.
Clark, S. M.
Cleveland, Cyrus.
Coffey, John J.
Coleman, William T.
Condon, L. R.
Curran, Huoh.
cuthell, tuomas h.
Devoe, Henry F.
Deyo, Philip A.
DiNSMORE, Samuel.
DiNSMORE, Luther.
DoRAN, Walter A.
Doty, William H.
DOUOLASS, RoilERT J.
Dkim.mdn, William P.
East, John A.
Edgar, William B.
Elting, E. J.
Embree, John.
Embree, Robert.
FaRRINGTON, THOiUS 0.
Flagg, Ethan.
FooTE, William C.
Francis, George W.
Francis, Kellogg.
Garrison, Hyatt L.
Getty, Robert P.
Getty, S. Emmett.
Hawkins, Joseph W.
Haws, Gardner.
Hobbs, John.
Jenkens, Dr. J. Foster.
Keeler, Albert.
Knox, Isaac H.
Lawrence, Justus.
Lawrence, Willum H.
Major, William.
Mason, John M.
Mercer, Charles T.
Montgomery, William.
MoTT, Willlam R.
Neville, Robert.
Olmsted, John.
Otis, E. G.
Pagan, John.
Peene, Joseph.
Perry, Safford G.
PiLsoN,' Conway.
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Quick, S. Francis.
Eadcliff, Peter E.
Read, Jacob.
Bobbins, Jeremiah.
Sanders, Jajmes P.
ScRivEN, James.
Shipman, Ralph.
Shonnaed, Edward F.
Skinner, George B.
Speedling, Alonzo.
Stare, Benjamin A.
Stare, Charles.
Stewart, David.
Stewart, George.
Stout, Theodore B.
Underbill, Edward.
Upham, Dr. George B.
Vail, Jonathan.
Valentine, James M.
Von Stoech, Henry F.
Waring, William C.
Waring, Charles E.
Waring, Jarvis.
Waring, John T.
Wells, Lemuel.
woodworth, w. w.
YouMANS, James.
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CHAPTER VI.
THE SANITARY FAIR.
A Great Success — Over Sixteen Thousand Dollars Raised to
Aid the Benevolent Work of the United States Sanitary
Commission.
DURING- the week commencing on Moudsiy, February 15, 1864,
the people of Y(\oakers united in a fair to raise money in aid
of the widely extended and beneficent work of the United States
Sanitary Commission among the sick and wounded Union soldiers.
Officers: Isaac H. Knox, President; Ethan Flagg, James R.
Whiting, James L. Valentine, William W. Scrugham and Everett
Clapp, Vice-Presidents; William H. Post, Recording Secretary;
G. Hilton Scribner, Corresponding Secretary ; E. J. Hanks, Treas-
urer; James C. Bell, Justus Lawrence, Edward Martin, John H.
Morris, Robert P. Getty, Cyrus Cleveland, Thomas C. Cornell,
William G. Ackerman, Robert J. Douglas, John T. Waring, Mrs. T.
R. Hibbard, Mrs. George W. Embree, and Miss Alantha P. Pratt,
(i4 YONKEUS IX THE HE BELLI ON.
Executive Committee; John K. Myers, James B. Colgate, Henry
Bowers, John Phillips, and Joseph H. Godwin, Finance Committee.
In charge of Fancy AVork Tahle: Mrs. (Jeoi-irt- W. Embree,
Chairman ; Mrs. Henry Anstice, Mrs. Samuel D. Babcock, Mrs.
Henry W. Bashford, Mrs. Henry M. Baird, Mrs. William Bell, Mrs.
Henry Bowers, Mrs. Henry F. Brevoort, Mrs. S. J. Brett, Mrs. Fred-
erick Carnes, Mrs. N. Carpenter, Mrs. Everett Clapp, Mrs. Cyrus
Cleveland, Mrs. H. B. Cleveland, Mrs. Frederick A. Coe, Mrs. Thos.
C. Cornell, Mrs. Abijah Curtiss, Mrs. R. L. Franklin, Mrs. F. S.
Gant, Mrs. Samuel P. Holmes, Mrs. Anson B. Hoyt, Mrs. Thomas
Kenworthy, Mrs. Justus Lawrence, Mrs. Edgar Logan, Mrs. Ed-
ward Martin, Mrs. J. H. Morris, Mrs. C. H. Mulford, Mrs. John K.
Myers, Mrs. D. C. Ralston, Mrs. H. M. Requa, Mrs. Josiah Rich,
Mrs. B. Rockwell, Mrs. M. W. Rooney, Mrs. G. Hilton Scribner,
Mrs. M. F. Rowe, Mrs. J. N. Stearns, Mrs. John Stilwell, Mrs. P. O.
Strang, Mrs. Walter Tail, Mrs. Charles E. Waring, Mrs. Ethan
Flagg, Mrs. Heman L. White, Mrs. Thomas F. Morris, Mrs. Wil-
liam C. Waring, Mrs. F. De Bellier, Mrs. John T. Waring, Mrs.
Lemuel Wells, Mrs. Wilm Beets, Mrs. W. W. Woodworth, Mrs.
II. n. Wolcott, Misses Carrie Gaylor, F. C. Bellamy, Bloomer,
M. Cahill, Ida Cleveland, I^fary A. Foster, Mary Francis Gourlie,
Grimwood, Kate Hullicit, ('. Lockwood, Helen Holmes, Maggie
Morrison, L. C. Mason, Clara Okell, Helen A. Rollins, Sandford,
Kate AVillard, Sanger, Sergeant, Maria Starr, H. Variau, Jennie
Black, C. E. Blauvelt, Liiia A. Budd, B.ll, (iilicii, Lawson, Locke,
Strulhers, Walsh, ami ('inter.
Flowers and Fruits: Mrs. T. K. llil.banl. Cluiiniiaii; Mrs.
Jo.seph Agate, Mrs. T. W. Binlsall, .Mrs. Willii.ni T. ('..Iniiau, Mrs.
THE SANITARY FAIB. 65
C. H. Lillientbal, Mrs. Thomas W. Ludlow, Mrs. T. M. North, Mrs.
Reuben W. Van Pelt, Miss A. Bettner, Miss Chapin, Miss Farring-
ton. Miss Harriet Getty, Miss Elizabeth Hilton, Miss Anna Pendle-
ton, the Misses Shannon, Miss Lila Seward, Miss Annie Shipman,
Miss Jane Underwood, Miss Edna Waring, Miss Rachel Waring,
WiUiam T. Coleman, Hudson Kingsley, C. H. Lillientbal, Thomas
W. Ludlow, Jr., Josiah Rich, Gt. A. Rollins, and Henry Baylis.
Painting and Fine Arts : William T. Coleman, Chairman ; Mrs.
James B. Colgate, Mrs. Lyman Cobb, Jr., Mrs. Saunders Coates,
Mrs. Edward F. Shonnard, Mrs. J. A. Underwood, the Misses
Gihon, Miss J. V. Kellinger, William Bell, Saunders Coates,
Thomas W. Ludlow, Frederick S. Cozzens, Lyman Cobb, Jr.,
Frederick A. Coe, Dr. L. W. Flagg, Carleton Gates, Thomas Gray,
Alfred Jones, Horace J. Moody, E. C. Moore, William Shannon,
and J. B. Carpenter.
Printing: John T. \Variug, Chairman; William R. Beal, Van
Buren Denslow, J. W. Padden, Lyman Cobb, Jr., Elon Comstock,
and M. F. Rowe.
Valentines and Post-Offices: Miss Alantha P. Pratt, Chairman;
Miss Martha Ackerman, Miss Helen Doty, Miss Lucy Gaylor, Miss
Isabella Gourlie, Miss S. M. Haines, Miss Kate Hurlbert, Miss
S. M. McAdam, Miss Ida Robbins, Miss Anna Thurber, Miss Kate
Taggard, Miss Lucy Valentine, Edward P. Baird, William C. Baird,
George W. Bashford, William H. Doty, David Morrison, Edward
Robbins, Josiah Rich, Jr., Frederic Shonnard, William B. Strang,
Stephen Struthers, and Marshall Whiting.
(jf; YOXKfJIiS IX THE KEBKLLIOX.
Rooms and Decorations: Thomas C. Cornell, Chairman ; William
S. Archer, John D. Hatch, Anthony Imhoff, George Leeds, Charles
W. Starr, B. Leeds, John McLain, Valentine Melah, and S. Francis
Quick.
Lectures, Music, and Entertainments : Robert P. Getty, Chairman ;
Francis N. Bangs, E. S. Cummings, Thomas W. Birdsall, Gardner P.
Haws, John M. Mason, William H. Taggard, Richard Wynkoop,
F.J. M. Cornell, Frederick S. Cozzens, Thomas Cuthbort, William S.
Duke, Edgar Logan, Thomas Moore, Thomas M. North, Stephen H.
Thayer, J. Henry Williams, and George W. Embree.
Refreshments: Philip A. Deyo, Chairman ; Mrs. William G. Acker-
man, Mrs. J. C. Bell, Mrs. J. Blake, Mrs. P. A. Deyo, Mrs. F. S. Coz-
zens, Mrs. George Embree, Mrs. J. H. Godwin, Mrs. A. T. Gourlie,
IMrs. Thomas Gray, Mrs. J. D. Hatch, Mrs. J. S. Hawkins, Mrs. J.
L.-wis Loib, Mrs. D. C. Kellinger, Mrs. C. Lynch, Mrs. .)<>lin .Mr-
Sweeny, Mrs. Hull, Mrs. H. J. Moody, Mi-s. A. C. Mott, Mr.s. J. M.
Morrison, Mrs. A. Munkittrick, Mrs. John M. Mason, Mrs. H. N.
Otis, Mrs. W. H. Post, Mrs. Eliza Potter, Mrs. S. F. Quick, Mrs. G.
A. Rollins, Mrs. J. C. Grimwood, Mrs. W. W. Scrugham, Mrs. J. G.
Schrive, Mrs. J. E. Parsons, Mrs. A. P. Speedling, Mrs. T. B. Stout,
Mrs. J. Wetherald, Miss Annie Anstice, Miss Bright, Miss Disbrow,
Miss Douglass, Miss Rebecca Getty, Miss Hawkins, Miss Macfarlane,
Miss Pethie, Miss Sanders, Miss J. Wakeley, Miss Wells, Miss Wil-
liams, Bailey Hobbs, A. Ai-chibald, H. F. Baldwin, Justus Lawrence,
M. C. Davis, W. TT. Dut}-, George W. Embree, Duncan MactVnlano,
Frederick C. ();ikh y, .1. K. Parsons, A. S. Radcliff, T. B. St.ait, S.
Struthers, E. P. Haird, and T. O. Farriiigton.
THE SANITABY FAIR. 67
War Memorials and Curiosities: Robert J. Douglass, Chairman;
E. S. F. Arnold, H. W. BasMord, B. F. Bunker, Charles L. Chad-
eayne, Henry C. Crane, William H. Lawrence, Josiali Rich, Jr.,
Thomas F. Morris, Joseph T. Sanger, James Stewart, E. Strang,
S. R. Syms, Edward Underhill, Dr. George B. Upham, and W. W.
Woodworth.
Produce, Groceries, and Provisions : William G. Ackerman, Chair-
man ; E. M. Bibby, M. T. Bolmer, Henry F. Brevoort, James Brown,
L. R. Condon, T. A. Collins, P. A. Deyo, Gilman Dudley, J. A. Dur-
kee, Charles R. Dusenberry, William B. Edgar, Caleb Fowler, A. F.
Vermilyea, George W. Francis, D. H, Kellogg, Dennis McGrath,
Peter F. Peek, Robert F. Rich, Jacob Read, Thomas Radford, John
W. Rockwell, Edward F. Shonnard, A. Van Cortlandt, and Charles E.
Waring.
Dry Goods, Books, ? nd Stationery : Cyrus Cleveland, Chairman ;
Peter B. Acker, Samuel R. Brown, William Gihon, John B. Peck,
William Smith, Peter O. Strang, James Wetherald, Samuel B. Janes,
Charles Lockwood, Alfred Ayres, Walter Bramhall, Britton Richard-
son, Henry Anstice, E. J. Elting, William Macf arlane, M. W. Rooney,
H. L. Stone, Walter Vail, Heman L. White, John N, Stearns, John
B. Locke, Frederick De Bellier, A. Munkittrick, and J. H. Wilgus.
Mechanics and Useful Arts : John H. Morris, Chairman ; Nelson
Ackert, James Berwick, Isaac G. Johnson, William C. Waring, H.
H. Wolcott, William H. Anderson, Hugh Curran, William Mont-
gomery, George B. Skinner, and William N, Seymour.
fJH YOXKEHS IN THE REBELLION.
The main exhibition was in the large three-story 1)ric-k building
on James street, then just erected for Ethan Flagg, and now occu-
pied by Howard W. Flagg as a hat-factory ; the art exhibition was
in Fan-ingtou Hall ; and a series of veiy successful entertainments
was given in the Getty Lyceum, a public hall which then formed
part of the Getty House. An interesting feature of the fair was
the following letter from President Lincoln and his Cabinet, sent
in response to a request from Mrs. Benjamin Kockwell to Mr.
Sewaj'd :
Washington, January 14. 1864.
The President of the United States, and the Heads of Departments, tender
their best wishes to the ladies and managei-s of the fair to be lield at Yonkers for
the benefit of the sick and wounded soldiers.
A. Lincoln,
Wiu.i\M H. Seward,
S. P. Chase,
Edwin M. Stanton,
Gideon Welles.
The letter bore the signature of each official, and was formally
sealed. It was sold to three hundi-ed contributors of twenty-five
cents each, and presented to the village. The original letter and
a list of the purchasers, in their own handwriting, are framed, and
occupy prominent places in the City Clerk's office.
Rev. Dr. Al)raham B. Carter, rector of St. John's Cliurch, sent a
note to Isaac II. Knox, President of the Yonkers Sanitary Fair,
saying, " I have the pleasure to inclose my check for .^750, being
the proceeds of a collection made in St. John's Church, on Sunday,
January 24, 18(54, in aid of the United States Sanitary Commission,"
with a re(iuest that the amount should be added to the proceeds of
tlif fail-. Otlici- churclics contribnt.Ml tn tlif success of thf fair bv
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concerts, entei-tainmeuts, and collections. At that time the popu-
lation of the town was something over 16,000, and the fair netted
over one dollar for every man, woman, and child within its borders.
It was a remarkably successful event, socially and financially, and
clearly demonstrated the patriotic spirit of the people.
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CHAPTER VII.
AT THE CLOSE OF THE WAR.
YONKERS AT THE ClOSE OF THE REBELLION — GROWTH OF THE VIL-
LAGE — More Progressive — The Census — Celebration op
THE Fall of Richmond — President Lincoln's Assassination
— Return of Our Brave Soldiers.
FROM the acceptance of the Village Charter to the close of
the Rebellion — ten years : six years of peace, four years
of war — was an eventful decade for the little hainlet strung along
the banks of the Nepperhan. In these years healthful progress
was made, and foundations securely laid whereon have been built
the superstructures of the present day.
Many questions there were to be settled, and vdlling hearts and
hands to settle them. The form of government temporarily set-
tled, there quickly arose the potent question as to who should fill
the offices, who administer the law. Great strifes there were in
those eventful days. There were burning questions as to the
roads, the police, the schools, and taxes, and after the war opened
there were added the mighty questions of the draft, the substitute,
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72 YONKERS IN THE liEBELLIOX.
and the bounty. Fierce were the debates in Getty Lyceum over
the town-bonding for bounties to substitutes. Scarcely less fierce
were the contests for town Supervisor in those sad days of the war,
so important were his duties.
Amid the clamor of popular strife, and despite the convulsion
of the Nation, this little village grew rapidly. Restless and
impatient, it still knocked at Mr. Shonnard's gate on the north,
and Mr, Ludlow's on the south. It was bursting its bonds.
At the close of the war the place had assumed an appearance
not unlike that of the present day. At the north end of the vil-
lage many handsome places had been laid out and built upon.
Along the Hudson most of the valuable sites had been taken up
and improved. The Flats and the Hill had assumed the appear-
ance which remains to the present day. Along the Nepperhan, once
so pure, the mill and factory had come to stay, and make odorous
the stream with their filth, and color it with their dyes.
A few streets, or parts of streets, liad been opened, and tlie old
roads slightly improved. A better class of buildings was fast tak-
ing the place of those small frame structures which always mark
a new settlement.
Added to these changes, a new race of men liad arrived within
our borders, and was fast driving out of power the men of the
famous village election contest of ten years before. These new-
comers brought with tlieiii jikhc! progressive ideas and nmcli avail-
able capital. Along with these, and chiefly owing to the great
demand for labor, came a rougher lot, some very good, some utterly
bad, the mass chiefly indifferent.
At this date the ancient town of Vonkt is had nnt been dis-
inembere.l, and still I'eai-hed fn-iii the S|iuyten Diiyvil ("reek, on
AT THE CLOSE OF THE WAS. 73
the south, to the Greenburgh town-Hue, ou the uorth ; while the
Bronx chiefly formed its eastern boundary, and the Hudson its
western. Around the foundry at Spuyten Duyvil, and again at
Riverdale, the population clustered, but north and east of the vil-
lage-line the township was yet in farm-laud. Along the Nepperhan,
the Bronx, the Sprain and Grassy Sprain, and Tibbet's Brook, were
farms and farmers, pure and simple, even at this late date. Here
and there, upon the old Post road, north and south of the village-
line, were the more pretentious villas of the wealthier classes.
The town roads had not increased much in numbers of late years,
and they were not models of road-making by any means, being
kept up after the ancient method of scooping up dirt from the sides
of the road to dump it on the middle. Within the village-lines the
ways were better kept, but the practice of macadamizing them
was not then in vogue. It is but a short time back to mud roads,
both in village and township, poor as the improved highways of
Yonkers are considered now.
Yonkers to all outwa.-d appearance was not affected by the war.
For all that the people personally knew of it, it might as well have
been in Asia, so remote were its effects. But statistics show that it
had a solid share in putting down the Rebellion. It is said that 40
men of Yonkers enlisted in the Mozart Regiment, and 135 in the
Sixth New- York Heavy Artillery ; but this is far short of the total
of Yonkers enlistment, for one authority says that Yonkers enlisted
254 men in army and navy. We find reported 17 deaths among our
soldiers, of whom 8 are reported as buried at Yonkers. All of these
figures are far short of the terrible reality. Many of the ordinary
items of information are likewise statistically cramped, but they
are the best that are to be obtained.
74 YONKERS IN THE HEISELUOX.
The census of 1865 gives the town a population of over 12,000,
and the village nearly 9,000. In the year 1800 the census gave
Yonkers 1,176 inhabitants.
A Gazetteer says that " Yonkers, pronounced Yonk'-erz, had 33
stone houses, 194 brick, and 1,328 frame houses," in 1865, and that
" a considerable amount of manufactures is carried on at Yonkers
and on the Spuyten Duyvil Creek." "It contains 9 eharches,
several private seminaries, a bank, and 3 newspaper oflSces." This
is not exact, but it is near enough for a general Gazetteer. If
we add a bank, several churches, a number of mills, a considerable
number of both people and houses, and say that Yonkers furnished
about 1,000 meu for the war, we shall probably come nearer the
truth. As to the sinews of war, we paid one (juarter of the whole
County Special Income Tax, and in all other war contributions
were not behind other towns.
We find in the census reports of that year — at the close of the
war — such notes as these: "At least nine-tenths of those who re-
pnrtcd answers speak cheerfully of the change which the war has
brought upon the social condition of the people and the future
prospects of the country." Two pro\'idential seasons of extra-
ordinary abundance are noted as tending "to restore prosperity
and happiness." An increase of expenditure among the people is
also noted, and a marked improvement in the condition of the poor.
Speaking concerning the soldiers, the historian of that year notes
that " much the greater portion quietly returned to the avocations
of livil life witli an industry in no degree impaired by their recent
life iu the lifld." AH of which applied to the town of Yonkers at
that date.
The year ISCm opened aiui<l mu<-h unrtTtaiiity and many mis-
AT THE CLOSE OF THE WAB. 75
giviugs as to the future. The people of the town and village of
Yonkers were thoroughly tired of the wai-, as, indeed, were the
inhabitants of all the towns of the county. Every one hoped and
prayed for peace. On every side now was evidence of this feeling.
In February there happened an event which brought the subject
anew and sadly to our hearthstones.
The Government had ordered a heavy draft of men. The new
quota of Yonkers was 106 of her sons. At Tarrytown the terrible
wheel was set turning with 1,528 Yonkers names therein — 212
names were drawn. At so late a date, after so many sacrifices on
their part, the good people of Yonkers felt the weight of this call,
and additional prayers went heavenward that the cruel war might
soon be over.
As the weeks wore on into months, and the prospects of peace
increased, a more joyous sense prevailed. With other towns
Yonkers rejoiced at the downfall of the Confederacy.
A Yonkers journal, of April 8, said concerning the victoi-y that,
" On receipt of the nt ws of the fall of Richmond, at Yonkers, on
Monday afternoon last, there was a general rejoicing among the
people, which found vent in various ways." In the evening groups
of people gathered on the corners or about Getty Squai-e to talk
over the events of the war. Cannon thundered forth a joyous
salute, and sundry impromptu exhibitions of fireworks were made.
The Village Fathers held a meeting the same evening, and resolved :
That this Board recommend that the citizens of this village join in celebrating
the fall of Eichmond, by au illumination of their dwellings, on Thursday evening
of this week.
It is chronicled of that eventful Thursday evening, that " Yon-
kers shone forth amid a perfect blaze of light. The scene from the
7() YOXKEliS IN TIIK UEBELLIOX.
river was one of enchanting beauty. Music, I'oar of caiiiion, aii<l
display of fireworks " lent gi-eater interest to the festi\nties.
The " news of the surrender of Lee's army was received with a
great demonstration, with steam-whistles, cannon, and church bells.
It was a glad day for everybody." The chronicler quaintly adds,
"And greatly enjoyed by all."
"The announcement of the assassination of President Lincoln
came suddenly upon the people of the "V'illage, and jiroduced the
most intense feeling of sorrow." Flags were put at half-mast all
over the town, for everybody owned a flag oi- two in those days.
Appropriate mention was made in all the churches on the following
Sunday. Upon the day of the funeral the village stores were closed,
and funeral services were held in several of the churches. "In
brief," says a chronicler of that date, " Yonkers, by every means
within her power, evinced the depth and sincerity of the sorrow
of her people."
Oil thi' cvciiiiii,^ of tile 'Jnth of April, a vast mass-meeting was
held at Farringt(jn Hall, at which .ludge Scrugham presided. The
night before the Village Tinistees had met and passed appropriate
resolutif)ns.
At the south of the Railway Station a memorial ardi wastlirown
over the railroad, and under this the funeral train passed north-
ward, while every elevated point along the tracks was occupied by
our saddened citizens, who stood with niicovercd heads and tearful
eyes as the funeral train moved slowly by.
Among the town items of that eventful year the searcher finds
that the street-cars stopped running on North Broadway, "totlic no
small inconvenience of their many pali<ins." \Vc mayadcl that the
horse-car i-oad of that dav was soon thereafter lotallv eliminated
AT THE CLOSE OF THE WAR. 77
and forgotten. To show how rural we were in those days, the fol-
lowing piece of village news will be not altogether uninteresting :
The park fronting the Getty House has been fitted up in good style, and now
presents quite an attractive appearance. Along the west side of it a strong rail
has been erected for the convenience of those who wish to hitch their horses thereto.
It is also related that an officer of the Sixth Artillery brought to
Yonkers two of the blackest contrabands Yonkers people had ever
laid eyes upon. They were slave boys of Major Eobinson, and
were respectively of the age of ten and twelve years. It is said that
one found a home with Frederick Newman, the village upholsterer,
and that the other was taken care of by Thomas Radford, of South
Broadway, the brother of Hon. William Radford, who, as our
representative in Congress, was one of the immortal seven who
voted for Emancipation in opposition to their party.
It is not a pleasant thing to record, but it is nevertheless true,
that but little public homage was paid to the heroes of the war
when they returned to iheir homes in Yonkers. A local reporter
noticed this, and recorded, for future generations to read, that "in
every place but Yonkers, to our shame be it said, the soldiers of
the Sixth Artillery are handsomely received and entertained." It
is certainly an unpleasant record, for the Sixth Artillery was pecu-
liarly a Yonkers organization.
That the veterans held together for a while is evidenced by the
fact that upon Thanksgiving Day of that year the Yonkers soldiers
organized a target company, commanded by Colonel E. Y. Morris,
and had for once a harmless shooting-party.
But for all the public neglect, each veteran was a hero among his
many friends. Some returned minus a leg or arm, but many more
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78 YOXKEUS IS THE HEBELLIOX.
in shattered health, aud within a very short period after their return
quite a number had passed silently away to their long rest from
strife and turmoil.
But to pass on to other subjects. For many years now the clink
of coin had not been heard in the town. Paper had been exclusively
used as current money. When, therefore, we read the followiui,'
item in a local paper we are made more fully acquainted with the
war phase of the currency :
While iu a ear of the Yonkers and New-York Railroad, a few days ago, we saw
a passenger hand the conductor a fifty-cent silver piece. We also learn that several
.silver half aud quarter dollars were taken at the Fenian picnic.
Times were not any too easy that year, and the rate of taxation
seemed high to all. "Everything, in short, is taxed, except the
air we breathe, and that will jirobably be taxed by the cholera,
next spring."
Ill that year the Hudson River Railroad still ran to Thirtieth
street, and there were but ten trains each way daily which .stuppetl
at Yonkers. It is hard to believe, but it is stated, that thei-e were
but two mails daily from Yonkers to New- York, and only one mail
north. Delays were tVeijuent and often tedious, both as to passen-
gers and mails.
The soldier who returned to his home after foin- years in the
field was apt to find urgent necessity for going to work at once to
earn a living for himself and family. No easy task just then, with
the labor-market irlutted. and jn-i.'es of liviii;,' lii.Lrh. When the war
broke out he <'oiild buy a iioiind of tirst-elass butter for L':; cents;
now tile same quality was (10 cents. Di.l he Imy cotton cloth, tiieii
it did not exceed U cents; now he must pay IVA ceiit.s. Flour, that
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in 1860 was $8 a barrel, now sold for $20. Wheat was now $1.30
per bushel, and corn 57 cents. When he went away tea cost 50
cents a pound; when he got home it had risen to three times that
price. Pork at 12 cents of old, now, alas! worth 30 cents per
pound. Beans were 6 cents and rice 5 cents a pound; now he
found the former at double their old price ,and the cost of the latter
nearly trebled. Had he worked as a day-laborer or farm-hand,
then he earned a dollar a day ; now he was worth only half a dollar
more, while all he needed was doubled, trebled, and oftentimes
quadrupled. But the brave man only worked the hai'der, and
fought out the bread-and-butter question as he had those questions
at stake in the war. In time he had conquered and solved both.
And so another period had passed. Many questions had solved
themselves, and many more had been settled by our brave and de-
termined citizens. The day was fast approaching when Yonkers
was to lay aside its youthful appearance, to drop its village and
rural attire, and assume the airs of a city.
Many of the leadMg men and women of the town and village
who were alive and active in public life and charities at the out-
break of the war, had been called away at a time when their voices
and assistance were sadly needed. Much of the work of recon-
struction fell upon the younger men of that day, and upon the new
men who were moving into the growing village. Such helpful
men as Ethan Flagg, Judge William W. Scrugham, James C. Bell,
Robert P. Getty, Justus Lawrence, Thomas C. Coimell, and Anson
Baldwin were still with us, and coached and applauded the young-
sters who had their shoulders to the wheel.
CHAPTER VIII.
BREVET BRIGADIER-GENERAL JOHN HOWARD HITCHING.
A True Christian Hero — His Bravery, Military Skill, and
Services as a Commander— The Fatal Shot at Cedar
Creek — His Untimely Death at Dobbs Ferry.
To see him is to respect him, but to know him is to love him.
From a letter of a soldier in Colonel Kitching^s commatid.
ONE of the Grand Army Posts of Yonkers has honored itself by
choosing for its name Kitching Post. The life of General J.
Howard Kitching was very brief, if measured by months and
years. He was born in the city of New-York, July 16, 1838, and
died in Dobbs Ferry, New- York, January 10, 1865. His life's battle
was finished before he was twenty-seven years old, but he lived
long enough to do for God and native land a valiant service which
strikingly illustrates the poet's lines :
We live in deeds, not years— in thoughts, not breaths ;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
84 YoxKKiis IX nil-: ueuellion.
' Memorials of sucli hi-voii- lives as his serve to remind us tliat on
the part of tens of thousands of Union officers and soldiers there
was a deep patriotic devotion, and often sacrifices much larger
than those of officers whose names are household words throughout
the length and breadth of the laud.
General Kitchiug's father was John P>. Kitciiing. His mother's
maiden name was Maria Bradner Hunt. Their home, at the
beginning of the Civil War, was at Dobbs Ferry. The record of
the noble character and services of their warrior sou eloquently
testifies of the rare training they gave liini. The perpetuity and
prosperity of the Republic depend upon American homes such as
theirs. He was taught from infancy to love God and his country.
Riding, boating, painting, and music wei'e among Howard Kitch-
iug's favorite pursuits. He sang well, with that deep, clear voice
which rang so musically on the battle-field, and he was a skilful
cornet-i>layer. AVliile heartily enjojnng the reereatit)ns of young
manhood, lie did not forget that '"life is real, life is earnest." He
heeded the solemn words, " 1 appeal unto you, young men, because
ye are strong," and before his nineteenth birthday he knelt at the
chancel of his beloved church and partook of his first communion.
Thereafter he loved intensely two l)anners — his country's flag and
the snow-white baiiiKT of tlic cross.
Fre(|U('iitly a siiectator of the cadets' drill at West Point, he
cherished u desire to become a soldier, but in deference to his
gentle mother, who did not wish him to enter upon military life,
he turned his attention to a business career. When he was twenty-
two years of age, lie married Miss Harriet l\i|iley. Tlie ceremony
took place in ('hi-ist"s ("hurch, Brooklyn, where he liad attemU^d
Sundav-Seh..ol when a hov. Wliei, Fort Suinlertell, Howard Kiteh-
BBEVET BBIGADIEB- GENERAL J. HOWARD KITCHING. 85
ing, although not yet twenty-three years old, went down to New-
York and enlisted with the Lincoln Cavalry as a soldier of the
Union. Circumstances pi-evented his going to the front with
the Cavalry, but he soon received a Captain's commission in the
Second New- York Artillery. The Major of that Regiment was
Alexander Doull, a young Englishman, who had served with great
distinction in the Crimea. Doull was "a true soldier, a young man
of real genius, and his friendship was of great value to the new
recruit."
Elm Park, Staten Island, was the recruiting and drilling camp
of the Regiment. On the 7th of November, 1861, they started for
Washington. Those who were present saw the youthful Captain
mounted on the spirited gray horse which carried him through the
whole war. He had a word of cheer for the wives and sisters of the
members of his Company. A spectator wrote :
We remember one old gray-headed mau, pressing his way through the crowd,
and, with tears in his eyes, begging the young oificer to be kind to his boy. The
Captain put his hand on tL^ old man's shoulder, and promised him that he would
look after his son.
From forts and camp-gi-ounds, from battle-fields, trenches, and
rifle-pits, Howard Kitching wrote a series of letters to his father,
mother, sister, and wife, which breathed deep affection, lofty
patriotism, and noble Christian faith. More than fourscore of
those letters have been published in a volume from which a large
portion of this chapter has been comj)iled. They unbosom a pure
heart and reveal a noble soul ; occasionally they glow with the light
of delicate humor, and frequently burn with a Christian zeal which
fills the reader with admiring wonder.
H6 YOXKEKS I\ THE UKUKLLIOS.
His Regiment did garrison duty for a time at Forts Ward and
Ellsworth. A letter from Fort Ellsworth, November, 1861, reveals
the impression made upon Cai)tain Kitching l)y a great re\iew of the
army by McClellan. "I saw the most magnificent sight which I ever
witnessed — seventy tliousaml men, infantry, cavalry, and artillery,
spread over an immense jjlain, their bright bayonets glistening in
the sun, their bands playing splendidly, cannon roaring from one
side of the plain to the other, and, in fact, words will not describe
the splendid appearance which so large an army makes when drawn
up in line of battle."
Garrison life w^as too quiet for Captain Kitcliiiig. He was so
eager to witness an engagement that on one occasion, when there
was a prospect of a battle, he rode out from the fort, joined one of
the batteries, and reiuaiii('<l on tlic field till about four o'clock in
the morning, waiting for the enemy to appear. At that early period
in the war he was spoken of as " one of the very best officers of the
whole army," but his youthful appearance was not in his favor
among strangers. He was not twenty-four years of age when he
wrote: "I am working very hard at my books, as I find that mili-
tary men expect me to make ui> witli Ijiaius for absence of whiskers."
When he was called into court as a witness the luiiversal opinion
of the members of the court was that he was "an extraordinarily
young-looking man for a Captain, but that he appeared much older
after he began to speak."
Howard Kitching's friends, when, during the last yi-ars of the
war, he came home for a few days, observed a great change in him.
" He was the same l)right spirit as ever, and the old sunny smile
still passed at times over his handsome face. Hut he had grown
older, and his look was more often than before irrave and iiuiet. and
BREVET BBIGADIER-GENEBAL J. HOWARD KITGHING. 87
a sense of deep responsibility evidently weighed upon him." He
desired to be a competent officer, and, with his knowledge of me-
chanics, he became familiar with the management of guns, and by
diligent study acquainted himself with fortifications.
As soon as it was rumored that the army was about to advance
toward Eichmond, he volunteei-ed to go to the front. General
Upton (then a Captain in the Regular Army) wrote : "Anxious to
participate in the fii'st campaign of the Army of the Potomac, Cap-
tain Kitching came to my battery and sought permission to join it.
So anxious was he, in fact, that he not only waived his rank to serve
under me, but he went still farther, and took command of a section
as the junior Second Lieutenant of the battery. Foregoing every
consideration due to his rank, and ignoring the pleasures and com-
forts of garrison life, he sought service in the field against the
enemies of his country — an act not only indicative of his ardent
pati'iotism, but one which will forever reflect credit and honor upon
his character as an officer and a soldier."
In 1862 General Mc^Olellan moved his army to the Lower Chesa-
peake. "Over one hundi'ed thousand men were transported by
water and set down on a new theater of operations almost one
hundred miles distant." Howard Kitching was now Adjutant of
an Artillery Brigade. His battery was sent up the Yoi'k River,
and disembarked at West Point. An army of ten thousand men
and horses was to be transported across the river. Just before
daybreak all the artillery was landed, with a loss of only one horse
out of five hundred. Adjutant Kitching wrote : " My boating ex-
perience, as well as my knowledge of horses, was, I hope, of some
service that night. If you could have seen me standing at the
tiller, steering a huge raft, with one hundred and eighty horses on
88 yoxkehs in the bebelliox.
board, jumping and kicking aud trying their best to get overboard,
whilst all the soldiers, worn out with hard work, were sleeping on
all sides, you would have wondered what kind of a craft I had got
into."
A large force of Confederates, commanded l»y Generals Lee and
Smith, attacked the Union troops of General Franklin's command,
determined to push them back into the river. Adjutant Kitching
was with the resei-ved batteries. He wrote: "The Thirty-First
and Thirty-Second New-York aud one Pennsylvania Regiment had
hardly entered the woods when the firing became very heavy and
almost incessant, the Rebels yelling and cheering like fiends, as they
drove our men back by mere force of numbers. Every few mo-
ments some poor fellow was carried past us either dead or horribly
wounded. We never fired a shot until our men began to appeal-,
retreating from the edge of the woods, when we loaded with shell,
and just as soon as the enemy made their appearance we let them
have it, one gun at a time, slowly and deliberately. They stood
their ground for a long time, but our solid shot and shell were too
hot for tlicn), and at last they began to retire, when our lirave
infantry again puslied into the woods and drove tlieni aliout two
miles before the night came on. It was a glorious victory, t'oi' our
force was small, they outnumbering us two to one. (Jeneral New-
ton has stated that our guns saved the day. Gideon's God was with
us. . . . I believe that this army cannot be beaten now. Tlicy
stand lii-e like veterans, and apparently the more terrilily llicy
suffer, the more fiercely they fight."
Howard Kitching's love of art made liiiii <iiiick to observi' tiie
l)ictures([ue features of a cainp. \Vli(ii Ik' was ncai- Fair Oaks
Station, lie wrote:
BREVET BRIGADIER-GENERAL J. HOWARD KITGHING. 89
Yesterday I went forward to where our outside pickets are stationed, and was
surprised to find that the "seceshers" were posted so near that we could almost
speak to them, and quite a pretty pictui-e they made too, in their bandit uniforms
and broad-brimmed hats and plumes. They wear clothes made of a kind of gray
homespun, and instead of tight-fitting coats like those of our soldiers, they wear a
loose blouse, which, being confined at the waist, reminds one very strongly of the
old pictures of Eobin Hood's men, as they dodge in and out behind the trees.
The young officer's admiration for the soldiers of the Union was
very great. He wrote: "It is splendid to witness the perfect con-
fidence of our troops in their ability to whip any force which
may be brought against them. Even the regiments which were
so dreadfully cut up in the late battles are waiting with the
greatest eagerness to have an opportunity of avenging their
fallen comrades."
His pen sometimes seemed to have the magic of an artist's brash,
so strikingly did he describe the scenes he witnessed. " The Eebels
have been firing at what they probably think are the headquarters
of our Generals. You ought just to hear and see some of the newly
invented projectiles whirring and whistling through the air. They
sound exactly like a locomotive and train of cars going overhead."
In June, 1862, General McClellan decided upon a change of base
to James River. His famous retreat of seven days is a part of
history. It was conducted with great military ability, but necessi-
tated on the part of his troops "fighting all day and marching all
night, pushing their way through dense woods and tangled under-
growth, and across sluggish streams." Oh, the horrors of that re-
treat! The troops first made a stand at Gaines's Mill. General
Upton wrote:
We entered the battle about 4 p. m., at once engaging the enemy's artillery, and
remained till nearly dark, under a heavy fire of shell and case-shot. The right and
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center sections of the battery were somewhat covered, but the left, commanded by
Captain Kitching, was exposed to the full view of the enemy, and received much
more than its proportion of fire. During tlie entire battle he served his guns with
great coolness, and was a brilliant example to the men. He received in the breast
a painful contusion fi-om the fragment of a shell, but did not quit his post.
Bayonet and shot and shell were not the only missiles the patriot
soldiers faced. The poisoned arrows of disease prostrated hundreds
of thousands. When the army reached Harper's Landing, Captain
Kitcliing was seriously ill from constant exposure, unceasing ex-
eitenieut, and sleepless nights passed in the saddle. He resigned
his position in the army, and repaired to his home.
The family went with him to Oscawana, that beautiful sheet of
water lying among the hills that look down upon West Point. He
soon recruited his strength, and with restored health he desired
to again be with those who were fighting for their country. In
vain his friends contended that he had done as much for the cause
as could reasonably ])e demanded of him, and that there were
crowds of young men at tli<- North, wlio liail neither wife nor child,
who had done nothing for their country, and who ought now to go
to the front where they were wanted. But he felt that he was now
more needed than ever. There was a general feeling of discourage-
ment throughout the North, and he argued that his services were
peculiarly demanded. He felt that he was fitted, as only the ex-
perience through which he had passed could fit him, to connuand
troops in the fearful struggle tliat ev.Tv tliou-^'litt'ul jx-rsnn knew
was impending, before the end could be attaine(l. lie had been on
a visit to New-York, an<l startled liis friends on bis return witli the
announcement that he was going back to tlie field again. Colonel
William H. Morris, of the One Hundred and Thirty-P''ifth Infantry,
liad invited liinj to iro with him as acting Lieutenant-Colonel.
BREVET BRIGADIER-GENERAL J. HOWARD KITCHING. 91
The Regiment left New- York ou September 5, 1863, and on
reaching Baltimore was quartered in Fort McHenry. Soon after
it was changed into the Sixth Regiment of New- York Artillery.
When Colonel Morris was promoted, Captain Kitching was ap-
pointed Colonel. The men were delighted. Captain Donaldson, a
brave young officer, wrote :
I can even now, in fancy, hear the gentle rebuke that fell from his lips because
we had allowed the men to turn out in such a storm to do him honor. Little,
though, did the brave fellows heed the rain, so long as he, their honored com-
mander, was with them.
In August, 1863, he commanded the largest brigade in the army.
It was a responsible position for an officer only twenty-five years
old. In the absence of General Tyler, Colonel Kitching commanded
the whole artillery reserve, consisting of 30 batteries, 2 regiments
of infantry, and about 300 ammunition-wagons. During the holi-
days of 1863, he was home on leave of absence. He returned in
January, 1864, and everybody was glad to see him back.
In March, 1864, Colonel Kitching was acting as Brigadier-Gen-
eral in command of four thousand men. The next month his troops
were reviewed by General Grant, and were highly complimented
upon their perfect drill and splendid marching. He was introduced
personally to General Grant. His was the First Brigade, Artillery
Reserve, Army of the Potomac. At this time his staff consisted of
Captain Effingham Donaldson, Adjutant-General ; Captain William
G. Ferris, Inspector-General; Lieutenant Smith, United States
Army, Aide-de-Camp ; Lieutenant Huyfler, Chief Engineer; and
Lieutenant J. F. Baker, Surgeon.
On the 5th of May one hundred thousand men were across the
Rapidan. They were indeed marching through the Wilderness. It
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was a region of gloom aud the shadow of death. The troops could
receive direction only by the point of the compass, for not only
were the lines of battle entirely hidden from the sight of the com-
mander, but no ofiScer could see ten files on each side of him. Ar-
tillery and cavalry were useless in such a country. For twelve days
fighting was incessant. The Union losses were probably forty
thousand. In an engagement where the Confederates were defeated
with great slaughter, the honor of their repulse belonged to Howard
Kitehiiig's battalions. A soldier of his command wrote :
We are proud of oiir commander — the little Colonel. I wisii you could see him
once. To see liim is to respect him, but to know him is to love him. He is just my
idea of a soldier and gentleman. While the shells are flying over us, and the bullets
whizzing past us, he is walking leisurely up and down the line, and if any of the
boys should dodge, he will say, with a smile, " No ducking — stand up ! " His
demeanor and e.xample in battle have made heroes of the meanest cowai-ds.
In May, 18(54, lie was guaivling tlu' Fredcrickslmrg road, and,
about four o'clock in the afternoon, he was attacked by Ewell's entire
Corps. By seven o'clock Colonel Kitching was commanding seven
thousand men. He wrote: "I had the pleasure of leading one
battalion into the fight. My Christian men have done particularly
well." His own escape from injury was marvelous. As his troops
were mostly new, he thought it necessary to expose himself more
than otherwise would have been necessary ; and yet, while every
one of his licld-officers was either wounded or IukI liis horso killc-d,
Coloui'l Kitching received only a slight scratdi. A sliarp-sliootcr
sueceedeil in breaking the skin of iiis neck, but did not seriously
liurt him. When tlio sharp-shooter was captured, lie said: "1 lircd
seven times at tiiat little Colonel, iiiid I would di.' liappy if 1 .-ould
lliive iiit liim."
BBEVET BRIGADIER-GENEBAL J. HOWABB KITCHING. 93
Ou the evening of May 31, 1864, Colonel Kitchiug wrote home
from the rifle-pits which the day before cost him nearly two thou-
sand lives to hold. He desci'ibed a tierce engagement, and referred
with gratitude to the valor of Major Frederic Shonnard. He says:
The enemy broke tlirougla Colonel Hardin's line, and came upon the head of my
column. I had no time to form line of battle. Two of my staff-ofacers fell at
the first fire. Major Crookston and Captain Palmer, just behind me, also fell ;
Crookston's horse was killed, and Palmer shot through the ankle. This terrible
fire right into the head of the column broke the men, many of whom had fallen,
and in less time than I can tell you my Brigade, excepting one battalion which I
managed through the heroic exertions of Major Jones and Major Shonnard to keep
together, was saUing across the plain. My officers are magnificent, and, at the first
fence where any protection could be had fi'om the murderous fire, they rallied the
Sixth Artillery, and I made a stand for about thirty minutes against the brigades
of the enemy. They came on in two lines of battle, waving their battle-flags, and
led bravely enough by their ofiicers; but our rail-fence, of which we had made as
good a breastwoi'k as we could, did us good service, and we did give them .Jessie !
I was forced to fall back, having no reenforcements. . . . We fell back to our sup-
ports, and got two batteries into position, and then had it hot and heavy till night
put an end to it. ... I went over the battle-field after the fight. We found one
Brigadier-General, one Colonel, two Lieutenant-Colonels, besides about three hun-
dred men, lying in front of «iy command alone. We also took about eighty prison-
ers. Would that the leaders of this terrible Rebellion could see the certain downfall
of their wicked efforts, and stop now, rather than sacrifice the lives that must
be lost before the end of the campaign! . . . Whenever we meet the enemy in
the open country, or he attacks us, we whip him. I notice one thing which encour-
ages me greatly —that the Rebel attacks upon our lines are becoming weaker and
weaker; the prisoners that we take all appear to be glad to get into our lines,
and say that " the jig is up." ... I am sitting amongst my men in rear of my rifle-
pits, and the stars over me. . . . My pickets are constantly popping at the enemy,
and vice versa. My clothes are ragged and dirty ; I am tanned like a darky, and,
altogether, look pi-etty seedy; but I beheve that my superior ofiicers and my
command have fuU confidence in me, which is a source of great comfort.
On June 3, 1864, he wrote from the lifle-pits near Cold Harbor.
They had been won from the enemy by Colonel Kitching's Brigade
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after five hoiars' hard fighting ! lu the last of the series of conflicts
fought so desperately from the Wilderness to the Chickahominy,
Howard Kitehing passed unscathed through withering fires of
shot and shell. In these conflicts Grant's loss consisted of more
than sixty thousand men. The army was then transferred, by a
flank movement, to the south side of the James River.
In a letter dated July 18, Colonel Kitehing says: "Major 8hou-
nard leaves for home this morning. Oh, how I envy him, and how
di;lighted his mother will be to get him safe home ! He has done
his ilut y as a soldier in a fcai-l(>ss manner, and carries with him the
respect of all his brother officers."
Colonel Kitehing was ordered with his cominaiHl to Wasiiington
in August, 1864, to take command of the defenses of that city.
He had the oversight of thirteen forts with their garrisons, extend-
ing eight miles. In one of his letters he expresses his gi'atitude for
the relief from anxiety this new position gave him: "It seems so
strange to be able to lie down at night in quiet, without the danger
of being blown to pieces by a mortar-shell."
On October 2, 1864, he received his very honorable discharge
from the service of tlie United States, upon an api)lication of his
own, on the giuunil of uioi-e than three years' service. He was
influenced in making this ai)plication by the conviction tliat his
wife and child ought to be deprived of his presence no longer, lb-
had made all his arrangements to leave Washington, but when he
went to the War Department the Secretary of War revoked the
order, and assigned Colonel Kitehing witli liis command to (leiieral
Sheridan.
Sheridan's army, fhishc(l witli repeated victories, lay (|uietly but
strongly posted ..n tlic l.ank of ( '.'dar ( 'reek. Slieridan liiniself was
BEEVET BBIGADIER- GENERAL J. HOWARD KITCHING. 95
absent. All the world knows how, mounted upon his black charger,
Sheridan sped to the battle-field when rumors of the defeat of his
troops were borne to him ; but all the world does not know what
heroic efforts were made by his brave officers to rally the surprised
forces, before their commander reached them. Howard Kitehing's
biographer has put on record the daring and skUl of the youthful
Colonel that day. At early dawn on the morning of the 19th of Octo-
ber, 1864, the light, struggling through a dense fog, was so dim that
friend could scarcely be distinguished from foe. The Rebels, sud-
denly sweeping in overwhelming numbers through the sleeping
camp of the Union army, startled the troops from their slumbers
The surprise was complete. Colonel Kitchiug had barely time to
buckle on his sword, seize his pistols, and mount his horse. Hav-
ing only one battalion of his own Regiment, he succeeded, after
an almost hopeless effort, in rallying his men, and held an impor-
tant road several hours, until nine out of eleven of his officers were
either killed or wounded.
One Color-Sergeanv after another was shot down, and his troops
were giving way before a wild onslaught, when Major Jones, who
was greatly beloved by the Regiment, fell, mortally wounded. Colo-
nel Kitching spurred forward and called out, " Stop, men ; you will
not let Jones be made a prisoner ! " They rallied to a man, and stood
their ground until their Major was safely carried to the rear. Af-
terward Colonel Kitchiug told, with tears in his eyes, how many
brave young fellows lost their lives in the rescue of an officer they
loved so well.
Just here it was that a young Color-Sergeant was carried by, his
life-blood ebbing fast away. With a sad but radiant face he looked
up and said, " Colonel, I did the best I could ! "
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96 YOXKEK.S IX THE REliEI.LIOK.
Colonel Kitching theu reported in person to Major-General
Wright, commanding the army, asking to be assigned to some
command where he could be of most ser\ace. The order he re-
ceived was that he should " rally the troops wherever he should find
them," so as to delay the advance of the enemy until a position
could be found wh<if they could make a stand.
With all the (l;!--!! ami energy of his eharactei', he adtkessed him-
self to the difficult duty. He spurred among the disordered soldier}',
and his clear, musical voice rang out over the wild scene as he
called them to "fall in." They soon began to rally around him
and contend for every foot of ground. But the enemy was in
overwhelming numbers, and the command was driven as far as
the Creek, which they found blockaded by the baggage-trains.
Colonel Kitching succeeded, by his unwearied efforts, in securing
the passage of the wagons. Once across the stream, the panic-
struck stragglers began to rush to the rear. Again his voice was
heard above the din and confusion, the roar of musketry and the
mingled shouts of battle. In the midst of this wild tumult, while
facing the enemy, a niiiiic-ball <'i'aslic(l tlu'ougli his foot. Wearied
and wounded, he still sat on his horse, ami gave his orders, though
now in subdued tones. He was again and again urged to leave the
field, but refused until the army had taken a position where they
might repel any attack of the enemj'. It was at this moment that
General Sheridan rode up to the front, and gave new life to the
troops by the magnetism of his presence.
Satisfied that all was riglit now. Colonel Kitching directed Cap-
tain Donaldson to accomi>any liini in search of a Surgeon to dross
his wound. Becoming fainter and fainter from loss of blood and
suffering, lie was yet conipelK'd to i-ide neaily t'oui- miles to tlie
BREVET BRIGADIER-GENERAL J. HOWARD KITCHING. 97
rear before he could obtain assistance. They found an Assistant
Sui'geon belonging to one of the cavahy regiments, and he dressed
the wound, but discovered it to be so serious that he advised the
wounded officer to be carried in an ambulance to where he could
obtain further medical treatment without delay.
The ambulances came rumbling by in rapid succession, but were
all filled with wounded men, and Colonel Kitching was unwilling to
have any poor fellow disturbed to make room for him. A stretcher
was then made of a piece of shelter-tent and 2>ine poles, and with
the help of some stragglers he was cari'ied several weary miles.
But this mode of transportation proved very painful, and as the Col-
onel was becoming weaker and weaker, an ambulance, containing a
poor soldier mortally wounded, was stopped, and he was placed
beside him, and so they reached Winchester. Suffering as he was,
he did not allow himself to be driven to the headquarters of Gen-
eral Edwards until he had seen his wounded comrade safely and
comfortably cared for in the hospital.
While waiting an t5;amination of his wound in this dreary place
— a bare room, crowded to suffocation with wounded and dying
officers — the news was received of Sheridan's brilliant attack and
the total rout of the enemy. Colonel Kitching looked up from his
couch of suffering, and exclaimed : " If this be true, I should be
willing to lose another leg." The ball was safely extracted, but the
Surgeon advised that he should be removed away from these sad
scenes, and where he could feel the sunshine of loving faces, and
be nursed by loving hands.
On Thursday, October 20, a despatch from General Sheridan
flashed through the country, carrying joy to loyal hearts, but carry-
ing to Howard Kitching's home anxiety mingled with joy. " We
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have again been favored by a great victory — a victory won from
disaster — by the gallantry of our officers and men. ... I have to
regi-et the loss of many valuable officers killed and wounded; among
them Colonel Joseph Thorbura, killed; Colonel J. Howard Kitchiug,
wounded ; Colonel E. G. McKenzie, wounded severely, but would
not leave the field." A few hours later came a telegi*am from
Howard Kitching himself, who evidently desired to save his
beloved family from all the anxiety he could.
His father and several other friends went immediately to Balti-
more, and in the early morning set out for home. The President
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad had most kindly prepared an
entire car for the use of the family — having the seats removed,
and eveiy possible arrangement made which could add in any way
to their comfort, personally superintending everything, that there
might be no confusion or delay.
While the friends stood around the stretcher at the I'ailroad
station trying to shield Colonel Kitching from the cold wind, an
Irishwoman with a baby in her ai'ms looked over his sister's
shoulder. Seeing the still rosy cheeks and bright curls, she wijied
away her tears with the corner of her apron, am\ said, "Och, an'
it 's dreadful ! such a lovely young man as that !" and then whis-
pered, "Has he a mother f Och, an' it 's the pity for her, jjoor thing!"
All day long there were whispered questions, and words of sym-
pathy — fruits and little delicacies offered. A fellow-traveler would
come beside him with a cheery, hopeful word — some allusion to
the glorious victory of tlic day before; then a "(iod Idess you,
f'oloncl ! Vou arc sutVcring iu a glorious cause." At a late hour
Hatunlay night they reached the Metropolitan Hotel, New-York,
where his mother, witli iiallid face, was awaiting his arrival. That
BREVET BRIGADIER-GENERAL J. HOWARD KITCHING. 99
evening the Surgeons, in consultation, decided that amputation
was necessary to save his life. He talked with the Surgeons in his
usual calm and courteous way, and the operation was performed.
After resting awhile, he was taken to the Gretty House, Yonkers.
Before recording his last words, we will quote a few sentences
from his letters written from camp and battle-field — letters which
unbosom his Christian faith. At the very beginning of his life as
a soldier, before he left home for the front, he repaired to Peekskill
to have his little boy baptized, and there, after his favorite Psalm
(the ninety-first) was read, he and his friends knelt in a parting
pi'ayer. The extracts from his letters need no comment.
This morning I took about two hundred and fifty of the men down to the
camp of the Fourth Rhode Island to attend service, as we have no Chaplain ; and
although it was very cold standing in the cold winds, I enjoyed the service very
much.
In a brief note written to his wife late at night at the close of a
weary day, he says :
Love our gracious Saviour, darling. Try to be with Him more every day, and
you will find that He is indeed our Elder Brother and the Friend above all others.
In April, 1862, he wrote to his wife :
God bless you, my precious one ! I would so love to kiss you good-night as of
old, and kneel down side by side as we did that sorrowful Sunday night, and pray
to the same loving Jesus. We can do this, my darling, although separated. Do
not forget to go to Jesus at twilight every day, and I will be with you there, even
if in saddle, marching in the dust or on the battle-field.
In the same month he wrote to his mother :
Darhng mama, I do so long for a dear quiet Sunday at home once more. The only
difference here between Sunday and any other day must be in a man's own heart.
... I know that my precious mother will be delighted to hear that Jesus'
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presence is almost always realized by me now. Sometimes, it is true, dark clouds
seem to come between Him and my soul, but at such times I have only to go to Him
and tell Him everything and He at once dispels the darkness and gives me perfect
confidence and trust.
In another letter to his wife he says :
I have just come from a poor Lieutenant who is mortally wounded. I have
been telling liim of Jesus, but, poor fellow, he is almost gone, and is hardly able
even to think. God in his mercy and grace have mercv on his soul.
On one occasion, when wi-iting home, he refers to a little book
his mother gave him, and the comfort he found in it. He says:
"In this volume is one little hymn which runs in my head all the
time:
" Here in the body pent,
Absent from Him I roam.
Yet nightly pitcli mj' mo\Tng tent
A day's march nearer home."
In his pocket-memoi'andum the following entry was found:
Ix LINE OF BATTLE, just going into action,
Sunday, July 12, 1863.
My Darling : If anything should happen to me, good-by ; God bless my darlings
both. Don't forget your Ho\vy ; but above all, don't forget the Lord Jesus.
There is pay due me from May 1st to the date of my death; ask papa to get it.
Bid all my dear ones good-by. God bless you, my own little comfort ; you have
been God's choicest blessing to me, next to my redemption by the blood of his dear
Son.
Bring Howy up to love me, darling I 1 have uotliing to leave you liut my blessing.
My trunk is at Harper's Ferry. Your own, Hdward.
Colonel Kitehing eagerly cooporatrd with the Army Cliaiilain.s,
and was accustomed to attend jirayer-meetings and revival ser-
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vices. At one time, while the soldiers were waiting for the order
for them to enter where the shadow of death was falling, they
held a midnight prayer-meeting, and Colonel Kitching was greatly
moved by the earnest, simple prayers of the men. His soldiers
knew him to be a Christian; and when Sergeant Hart, a noble
Christian, was wounded, and in the very thick of the fight was
carried past his beloved commander, looking up with a bright
smile, he exclaimed, " Colonel, I shall have the honor of being in
heaven before you." When Howard Kitching was lying on a bed
of suffering, he narrated this incident with tears in his eyes.
The marks in his pocket hymn-book show that he found solace
in his soldier life in the lines :
Lead, Saviour, lead ! amid the encircling gloom
Lead thou me on.
The night is dark, and I am far from home ;
Lead thou me on.
Keep thou my feet ; I do not ask to see
The distant scene — one step enough for me.
After he had been wounded, he seemed one day greatly distressed,
and grasping his sister's hand, with a look of intense anxiety said,
" Darling, if I die this morning, do you think I can be saved ? "
After a moment's silent prayer she said, " Why, Howy ! I have
no more doubt of it than that you and I are here now."
" Oh, that is because you don't know ; you don't know anything
about what a sinner I have been. You think I have been good, but
I have not. ... I will tell you, and then you will know. That
morning at Cedar Creek, when the Rebels rushed through my
camp, it was awful ; we could hardly tell friend from foe. I had
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only a few of my own men — all of those mixed regiments — they
did n't know me, and I could not manage them like my own Bri-
gade. I ti-ied every way to rally them. We were making a des-
perate stand, when some teamsters and other fellows came rushing
across the field, enough to make a panic, and an oath escaped me."
His friend Captain Donaldson had come in and sat down beside
him. " Donny," said he, " did you ever hear me swear before ? "
" Never, Colonel."
"It was dreadful. I don't know how 1 eould have duiic it — it
must have been Satan — but I was so excited." And again came
the eager whisper, " Do you really think Jesus can forgive that ? "
His sister quoted, " The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all
sin," and other passages of Scripture; and as she stooped to kiss
him, a quiet look of peace came over his face. " Well, then, I'll
trust Him."
It was on the 1st of Dooeniber that he was rcniovfd to tlie Getty
ilciusf, Vonkers. His physicians IiojhmI tliat entire change of scene,
witli tlie fresh air of the country, and the (•diiifort of having his
wife and little children about liiiii. would euiible him to rally and
Ijreak up the fever that seemed wasting away his life. One day he
suddenly exclaimed, in a tone of real distress, "O Louise, both
hands and both feet ! "
Thinking he must be siillering intensely, she said, " Why. darling,
are you so much worse ! I thought you were asleep."
" Oh, no," he said, his eyes filled with tears. "Jesus — how cuultl
he endure it ? Both hands and both feet ! and all for us, too!"
Then he told her how often he had thought that the pain in his
laci rated foot must have been the same kind of pain that Jesus
sulTered: how his own siitVei'lnt:. even witli all tlie alleviations of
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their loving care, liad made tiini think more and more of the dread
mystery of that death upon the cross.
Colonel Kitching began to improve and gain strength rapidly.
Many a family gathering was had around his wheel-chair. About
this time one of his Orderlies, from the Sixth Artillery, arrived in
charge of the Colonel's horses. Most amusing were the interviews
between the two: the little Irishman's humorous repUes to num-
berless questions about all that had transpired since the Colonel's
absence, with occasional sly suggestions from "Pete," the Southern
darky, who generally sat as a shadow just behind him. Many a
cheery message was sent back to the Regiment, telling them that
as soon as he could mount his horse he would be with them to
lead them in the assault on Petersburg.
On Thursday, December 22, the cold was intense, but Colonel
Kitching was so eager to be home again that he went in a cutter to
Dobbs Ferry. On Christmas they were very happy throughout the
day, but the pain which commenced that evening increased in
severity, and it was soon evident that he had taken cold. The in-
flammation of the wound continued to increase to such a degree
that another surgical operation was necessffry. When the prepara-
tions were completed, he said, "Wait a moment, Doctor." Then
drawing his sister close down to him, he whispered :
"If I should not live through this, dearie, you know whom I
have trusted. Be sure to bring the children to Jesus and to me."
Then repeating the farewell messages she had so often before
received, he drew her closer for a lingering kiss. Chloroform was
administered, and the operation performed. A shadow passed over
his face, then a calm, bright smile — Howard Kitching was "with
the Lord."
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He sleeps in Greenwood Cemetery, underneath "a low green tent
whose curtain never outward swings."
A whiter soul, a fairer iruiid,
A life with purer coarse and aim,
A gentler eye, a voice more kind.
We may not look on earth to find.
Thf! love that lingers o'er his name
Is more than fame.
Ilis widow and daughter, Edith Howard, reside in New-York
City ; hi.s son, John Howard, died two years ago at Bona, Algeria,
where he was Vice-Consul. His mother and sister, Mrs. Theodore
Irving, are living in Tarrytown. His father died July 19, 1887. A
brother and three sisters have all passed to the spirit-land.
^
CHAPTER IX.
SOME PERSONAL RECORDS OF THE WAR.
Colonel Fisher A. Baker and His Battles — Surgeon G. B.
Balch — Jeremiah Burns and the White House — The First
Yonkers Hero Who Died for the Union — Captain Matt.
H. Ellis and His Campaigns — Hand-to-Hand Encounter
of Captain William L. Heermance with Captain B. M.
Medina — The Hero and His Crutch— General Thomas
EwiNG AT Pilot Knob — Adjutant James Millward and the
Washington CLi_v Battalion — Major James V. Lawrence
and Mosby's Band — Thomas Oliver's Lost Medal— Abra-
ham J. Palmer and "The Die-No-Mores" — Ralph E. Prime's
Services and Promotions — Where William Riley Lost
His Arm — Major Frederic Shonnard's Honorable Career
— Captain James Stewart, Jr., Rescues Generals Hooker
AND Williams from an Embarrassing Situation.
FRANCIS HIGGINSON ATKINS, at one time a scliolav in
District School No. 2, and afterward a graduate of the Law-
rence Scientific School, Harvard University, was tutoring at Har-
vard at the outbreak of the war, hut gave up his situation to enlist
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106 YOXKEUS IX THE HE BELLI OX.
as a private in the Forty-Fi)nrtli ]^■f;illH'llt ]\Iassachusetts Vol-
unteers.
After a campaign in North Carolina, being much in need of rest,
he passed the summer of 1862 at home, on South Broadway, Yon-
kers. Entering the service as a medical cadet, he became Acting
Assistant Surgeon in the United States Navy, and was -s^ith Far-
ragut's squadron in the Gulf. He has continued in the service
since the war, and has been stationed in the Soutlnvest. He is a
brother of T. A. Atkins.
Fisher A. Baker became a resident of Yonkers in 1875. He
was a law clerk in New-York City when the war liroke out. He
went home and enlisted as a private in the Eighteenth Begiment
Massachusetts Volunteers, in April, 1861; he was commissioned
Second Lieutenant in that Regiment, July 26, 1861 ; promoted First
Lieutenant October 29, 1861; appointed Adjutaiil Fdiniary 1,
1862; and commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel -luly '_'!•, 1S64. Uis
Regiment was in the Fifth Corps of the Army of the Potomac,
and he was with his Regiment every tiint- it went out of camp
during the term of his service.
He took part in the operations in front of AVashington in the fall
of 1861, in the siege of Yorktown, in the Peninsula Campaign, and
was ill tlir tullowiiin- liattles: Second Bull Run, Antietam, Shep-
pardtdwn, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettyslmrg, Bristoo
Station, Rappahannock Station, Mine Run. Wildniicss, Lauicl
Hill, Spottsylvaiiia, North Anna, Bctliesda Cliureh, Toi-opotomy,
Cold llailinr, and I'ltcisliurir. !!•■ was mustered out at the expu'a-
tion of his term of service, Septenil)er 2, lS(i4.
SOME FEBSUNAL RECORDS OF THE WAR. 107
Galusha Buechaed Balch, M. D., at the breaking oiit of the
War of the Rebellion, was engaged in the practice of his profession
at North Lawi-ence, N. Y. He offered his services in the fall of
1861, and was appointed Assistant Surgeon of the Ninety-Eighth
New- York Infantry Volunteers. The Eegiment was assigned to
the Army of the Potomac, and in the following spring went to the
Peninsula under General MeClellan. Upon the occupation of York-
town, Va., by the Union Army, he was detached from his Regi-
ment, and assigned to dutj^ in the General Hospital at that place.
Soon after he was given chai'ge of the steamer State of Maine,
which was used in transporting sick and wounded to Baltimore.
This service was so efficiently performed that Dr. J. Simpson,
Medical Director of the Middle Department, reported upon it in
the following langiiage: "The condition in which the State of
Maine arrived was highly creditable to Dr. Batch. The sick
were well cared for, and the sanitary condition of the vessel
was in a much better state than the others that have lately
arrived."
Dr. Balch returned to his Regiment early in August, and re-
mained with it about two months, when he was compelled to leave
the service on account of sickness caused by excessive labor and
exposure.
In December, 1863, he again tendered his services, and was com-
missioned Assistant Surgeon of the Second Veteran Cavalry, New-
York Volunteers, and went with that Regiment to the Department
of the Gulf. During the Red River Campaign he was Surgeon in
charge of his Regiment, and was in the field with it in all of the
battles. During the summer, autumn, and winter following he was
with the Regiment in its numerous raids and skirmishes, and was
108 YOXKERS IN THE REHELUOX.
exposed to the deadly miasma of the Louisiana swamps, and to the
uuci\alized warfare of ambuscading bushwhackers.
Ill the spring of 1865 he was in the Mobile Campaign, and was
with the Regiment on the 12th day of April, when it made its last
fight and charge at Whistler's Station, Alabama. He was mustered
out of the service with his Regiment in the following November,
having been in over forty engagements during his term of service.
His commanding officer had occasion to say of him : " He was a
brave and efficient officer." For many years Dr. Balch has prac-
tised medicine iu Yonkers.
John Bashford hastened to Washington when Rebellion was
threatened, aud arrived there just in time to do good service iu the
Washington Clay Battalion, under command of Major Cassius M.
Clay. After the National Capital was deemed secure, Mr. Bashford
returned to New- York, where he enlisted in tiie United States Navy,
and was assigned to the Ironsides. For a year he served his coun-
try Ijravely, when he was honorably discharged.
William C. Blackett was born in the city of New- York. In Feb-
ruary, 1862, being less than nineteen years of age, he enlisted as a
private in Company H, One Hundred and Second Regiment New-
York State Infantry Volunteers. His service was severe and try-
ing. He was first in the battle of Dranesville, Virginia, in March,
1862, and then in the 1)attles of Cedar Mountain, in Pope's Cam-
paign in ^'i^«iillia, and in the battles ..f Aiitiftnin. Winclu'ster,
Fairfax Station, ("haiicellorsville, and ( icttyslturg.
In October, 1863, his Regiment was transtVrrod t.. tiic Army of
the Cmiil)erlaiid, aud was in Ww battles of W.-mliatrlii.., Cliatta-
SOME PERSONAL RECOBBS OF THE WAR. 109
nooga, Lookout Mouutaiu, Missionary Ridge, and Ringgold Gap.
In 1864 he was in the Atlanta Campaign, and fought in the battles
of Resaca, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, Pine Mountain, Gulp's Farm,
Peaehtree Creek, and Atlanta. He marched with General Sherman
from Atlanta to the sea. In 1865 he was in the campaign through
the Carolinas, and in the battles of Edisto River, Bentonville, and
Raleigh. He was in continuous service for three years and six
mouths.
He died in Yonkers, December 4, 1891, and his body was interred
in St. John's Cemetery, on Sunday evening, December 6, when, by
the glimmer of candle-light, his former comrades of Fremont Post
impressively performed the military burial service.
James Bkaziee is a native of Scotland. He served as a corporal
in Company B, One Hundred and Fiftieth Regiment New- York
State Infantry Volunteers, from August, 1862, until June, 1865.
At the battle of Gettysburg he was shot in the neck during the
fight of the third day. After General Meade's victory, which drove
the Rebels out of Pennsylvania, he was ti'ausferred to the West,
and was in the several battles of the Atlanta Campaign, from May
to September, 1864.
Corporal Brazier had the honor of marching from Atlanta to
the sea in the grand army led by General William T. Sherman.
In the early part of 1865 he participated in the campaigns through
South Carolina and North Cai'olina. He was mustered out of ser-
vice in Washington, after the great review.
Jeremiah Burns was one of the most loyal and energetic citizens
of Yonkers. A New Hampshire man, he was chosen, together with
11(( YOXKKES IX THE REBKLIAOX.
Commodore Farragut, to represent his uative State during the war
on the Committee of New England States organized for the general
welfare of the soldier. He was a warm friend of President Lincoln
and Secretary Stanton, and had a "pass" from them to admit him
anywhere within the Union lines.
He visited General McClellan's army when the swamps of the
Chickahominy and the warm, muddy water of the Pamunkey were
doing more to reduce the Union forces than General Lee and his
whole command. The entire region presented a scene of desolation,
with the exception of the White House and its surroundings, being
the residence of the Confederate General Fitzhugh Leo. By what
was regarded as mistaken clemency or sentiment on the part of
General McClellan, that was guarded, and Union soldiers were re-
fused the shelter of the buildings and trees, and even a drink from
its bountiful spring of cool water.
Finding this unjust condition of affairs, Mr. Burns hastened to
Washington, reported the facts to President Lincoln and Secretary
of War Stanton, and speedily retui'ned with an order to convert the
White House into a LTnion hospital, and to use the premises for the
comfort and welfare of the Union soldiers. The guards were re-
moved, the place was at once prepared for the sick and wounded,
and the refreshing water of the spring Itecame the comnion ])roperty
of all.
Srxin aftei-, however, Stonewall Jackson advanced upon the place.
The Wliite House was committed to the flames, bridges were de-
stroyed, and the Union army was coin])elle(l to move. The aban-
doimient of this post by General McClellan, the destruction of mil-
lions in the shape of provisions and ordnance, and the hazardous
change of front of the Army (.f the Potomac, in face of tl netnv.
SOME PERSONAL RECORDS OF THE WAR. IH
gave rise to many severe criticisms on the conduct of that portion
of his campaign against Richmond. But the motive and action of
Mr. Burns elicited wide commendation. He often visited the sol-
diers, and always to cheer and aid them.
Henry A. Chadeayne, with several companions, enlisted in the
Ninth Infantry Regiment of New -York Militia, in response to
President Lincoln's call for 75,000 men to preserve the Union. He
was in the battle of Bull Run and in the Shenandoah Campaigns.
At the time of the battle of Antietam some anxiety was felt by his
friends in Yonkei's as to his safety, which was soon relieved by a
letter, from which the following is an extract :
Another terrible battle has been fought, and once more I have come out all right,
although at one time it seemed as if it would be impossible for one of us to escape alive .
The night previous to the battle our Brigade lay in a wood in front of the enemy.
At daylight we marched toward them in line of battle. We were on the extreme
left, to prevent a flank movement. We marched so quietly that they had not time
to throw out skirmishers before we were on them. They were behind a mound of
earth, while we were drawu up as if for a dress-parade. We suffered severely,
owing to this position. Had we taken the same advantage as they did, we could
have done as much execution, and without so much loss. They had a battery directly
in our front throwing grape and canister, but owing to the elevation of their guns
they fired over us, but did great execution among the ranks of the Brigade in our
rear, so that when our ammunition was expended, they had not suflcient men left
to relieve us.
I had two narrow escapes. At the first of the fight a ball struck my bayonet,
while sheathed, directly on my hip, and split it in two, the pieces entering my clothes
without scratching my skin. I picked the pieces out, and have them now. A few
moments after, a man in front of me was shot in the breast, and while taking him
to the rear, I had to pass thi-ough a perfect hail-storm of shot and shell. 1 had just
left him when I saw a cannon-shot bouncing along the ground toward me. It
skipped three or four times, and then struck my blanket and haversack. It keeled
me over and gave me a severe jar withoiit hurting me. In fact, it came so slow I
could have caught it in my hands.
1 1 1> YONKEliS IX THE KEBELLION.
This battle they say was the hardest of the war, and I tell you the field presented
the most horrible sight you ever looked upon. I hope I may never see another like
it. We had six hundred men killed in our Brigade — General HartsulFs.
Some time after this battle Mr. Chadeayne was transferred to the
Sixth New -York Artillery, Colonel Kitehing. On the couclusion
of his term of service he returned to "Westchester County, and
engaged in the hardware business at Katonah. AVjout ISTil ho
removed to Battle Creek, Michigan, where he remained until tlic
beginning of the summer of 1891, when he removed to New Dtluth,
Minnesota.
A. Alonzo Ceaw was the first Yonkers hero to give his life
for the Union. When President Lincoln issued his proclamation
calling for men to sustain the laws, Mr. Craw, then in his twenty-
second year, responded with patriotic ardor. With a number of his
friends he enlisted for the war in the Ninth Infantry Regiment of
Ncw-Vork Militia. On hastening to tli.' front, tlu- Keginieiit was
placed under (iencnil Patterson.
After the battle of Bull Kuii, the coininand was stationed at
Harper's Ferry, with a greatly reduced force. The lines being weak,
the men were compelled to do double duty, which soon affected
the health of many who were unaccustomed to the rigorous disci-
pline of army life. The camp was poorly supplied with shelter,
wliili' the hospital was l)ut crudely organized, and almost dcsti-
tutf of necessary su[)]>li('s. Sickness, fever, and death thinned
tiie ranks alarmingly. Young Craw was an enthusiastic soldier,
was much exposed, and, like his conirados, was inditTcrontly suji-
plied with suitable clothing. \\y ln'caiin' inilis].osc<i, but i.rrsisti'.l
in tilt' (liscliargc of liis dutv until forced to snrrcn.l.T to the I'aiv
SOME PERSONAL BECOIWS OF THE WAR. 113
of a Surgeou. He was removed to a hotel at Sandy Hook, Mary-
laud, where all possible attention was given him, but his disease
assumed a typhoid form, and on Sunday, midnight, August 4, 1861,
his brave spirit took its departure from earth. His comrade, Henry
A. Chadeayne, was with him when he died, and accompanied the
remains to Yonkers.
Hope Hook and Ladder Company No. 1, of which Mr. Craw was
a member, paid him the following tribute: "We recognize in his
death the loss of one of our most worthy and efficient firemen, one
of our best citizens and Christian neighbors. His gallant conduct
in being among the first to volunteer in defence of his country's
honor commanded our highest admiration, and embalms his mem-
ory in the heart of every patriot and good citizen."
He was a teacher in the Sunday-School of the Fii'st Methodist
Episcopal Church, and was engaged to be married to an estimable
young lady of the congregation. He was honored by a public
funeral, which was very largely attended. The following pall-bearers
accompanied the remains to Greene County, where they were com-
mitted to the earth, "dust to dust": James Stewart, Noah B.
Hoyt, A. C. Mott, Joseph L. Proseus, Henry B. Archer, Eichard
L. Thompson, George Hoyt, and Charles W. Starr.
Matt. H. Ellis served in the war with the One Hundred and
Seventy-Fifth New- York Regiment of Infantry, which was mustered
into service in September, 1862, and mustered out November 27, 1865.
He entei'ed the Regiment at its formation as a private, was com-
missioned Captain December 19, to rank from November 19, 1862.
He was breveted Major for gallant conduct in the capture of Port
Hudson, June 14, 1863.
114 YONKKRS IN rilK liEBKLLION.
Ill the Library of National Records it is said that "he honorably
and bravely acquitted himself in the Ijattles which occurred during
the march of Gen(>ral Banks from Brasliear City to Opelousas,
Louisiana."
Soon after the war Captain Ellis removed to Yonkers, where he
has served as Captain of the Fourth Seijarate Company, as Judge
of the City Court, Trustee of the Board of Education, and in other
iiiipoi'tant capacities.
Thomas Ewing was born at Lancaster, Ohio, August 7, 1829.
He is a son of Thomas Ewing, formerly United States Senator from
Ohio, and Secretary of the Treasury under President William H.
Harrison, and of the Interior under President Zachary Taylor. Mr,
Ewing graduated at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island,
and at the Cincinnati Law School. He mamed a daughter of Rev.
William Cox, of Pi(pia, Ohio, in 1856, and removed to Leavenworth,
Kansas, wlicre he iiracticcil law successfully and bore a prominent
and efficient part iu the great Free State struggle. For one year
General Shemian was his law partner there.
He was chosen Chief Justice of the first Supreme Court of Kan-
sas, resigning that office and entering the Union Army in lS(;i2.
He was promoted to be Brigadier in 1863, for gallant conduct at
the battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas ; and Brevet Major-General,
for the battle of Pilot Knob, Missouri, where he commanded the
Union forces against General Sterling Price, September 27 and 28,
1864.
He returned to Ohio in 1871, and represented the Capitol District
in Congress from 1877 to 1881, and was the Democratic candidate
for Governor in 1H7!I. He declincil a I't'iiomiiiation to Congress and
SOME PERSONAL RECORDS OF THE WAR. 115
removed to New- York City in 1882, where he has since practised
law, living in Yonkers.
John Foksyth, in the fall of 1862, enlisted as a private in Com-
pany F of the One Hundred and Thirty-Fifth Regiment, New- York
State Infantry, which was afterward changed to the Sixth Regi-
ment, New-York State Artillery. He was in all the engagements
with that Regiment down to the battle of Spottsylvania Court-
House, Virginia, May 12, 1864, in which he was so badly wounded
that he was conveyed to the Lincoln Hospital in Washington, where
he was under treatment for seven months. He then recovered so
as to be able to join his Regiment, was appointed Commissary
Sergeant, and served in that capacity until July 8, 1865, when he
was honorably mustered out of the United States service, at Poca-
hontas, Virginia.
Returning to Yonkers, he entered the employ of S. Francis Quick
as a carpenter, with whom he has continued to the present time,
with the exception of brief intermissions when he has been engaged
in building houses for himself or in travel.
John Gkevert, a native of Germany, enlisted February, 1862, in
Company I of the Ninety-Fifth Regiment, New- York State Infantiy
Volunteers. He was in the Army of the Potomac during his Regi-
ment's entii'e service, and with it in over forty engagements. His
term of service covered three and one half years.
William L. Heeemance was born in Kinderhook, New-York, Feb-
ruary 23, 1837. He was engaged in mercantile business in New-York
City. When Fort Sumter was fired upon he raised a Company of two
hundred men among friends and their acquaintances, which, at its
116 YONKEKS IS THE HEUELL10S.
own expense, secured arms and hii-ed a hall in which to drill. Mr.
Heermanee was elected Captain, but not feeling competent to take
the Company into active service, he declined the honor, and enlisted
as a private in Company H, Ninth New- York State Militia. In May,
1861, this Regiment was sworn into the service for tlir mu; as the
Eighty-Third New- York Volunteers — the only Regiment so mus-
tered in up to that time.
After serving through the summer of 1861 in Maryland and the
Shenandoah Valley, at the close of the Patterson Campaign he was
commissioned as First Lieutenant in the Sixth New- York Cavalry.
Til the fall of 1862 he was commissioned as Captain, and served
witli that Regiment until November, 1864, when he was mustered
out, having, a short time before, been shot in the head, and inca-
pacitated for active service.
On April 30, 1863, after takitig the advance of the right wing of
the army on the way to Chancellorsville, the Regiment proceeded
to Spottsylvania Court-House, where they were sunouuilcMl ])y
General Fitzhugh Lee's Brigade of Confederate Cavah-y, and urde-rcd
to surrender. The command was given to V)reak by fours from the
right, and cut their way through by saber. Captain Heermance's
squadron, being on the right, was the first to strike the enemy. His
right cut nearly severed the nose from the face of a Captain of the
Fifth Virginia Cavalry. At the same moment another Confederate
officer placed a pistol against Captain Heermance's left side as he
wheeled to resist the attack, fired, and disabled his bridle-arm, the
ball entering his stomach. He was knocked from his horse, left
uiM.ii thi- field, and r.']».rtod drad. lie .■s.-a]..',! with his life. Iiow-
cv.T. I. lit was captun'tl and taUm t.. Lil.l.y I'risoii. It is an int.'r-
esting fact that, twenty-seven years aftei' the war, Coli>nel Ueor-
SOME PERSONAL BECOBDS OF THE WAB. 117
mance should discover that the mau whose nose he had nearly
severed from the face in this desperate hand-to-hand fight was Cap-
tain Benjamin M. Medina, and that both were residents of Yonkers.
They are both now loyal to the old flag, and often in a friendly way
talk over the dangers through which they passed.
Captain Heermance was exchanged in time to join his Regiment
on the march to Gettysburg. As part of Buford's Cavalry, they
opened the fight of that decisive battle, holding Cemetery Eidge
until the Infantry came up. A few days later he was shot through
the right breast while charging the enemy, protected by breastworks,
at Boousboro, Maryland.
On May 11, 1864, while with General Sheridan in his famous
raid around Richmond, he charged with his command down
Brook's Pike, captured the first line of the defenses of Richmond,
and commanded the first Union troops to enter them. During the
summer of 1864, as Senior Captain, he commanded the Regiment,
was breveted Major and Lieutenant-Colonel, but could not receive
full rank, as the positions were filled by ofiicers who were absent
or on detached service.
On September 15, 186i, General Thomas C. Devin, commanding
his Brigade, thus wrote to Captain Heermance: "During a contin-
uous and arduous service of nearly three years under my com-
mand, during which you have been three times desperately
wounded, I have always found you a brave and most efiicient
ofiicer. You handled your Regiment splendidly as Senior Captain,
and I most cordially recommend His Excellency Governor Sey-
mour to commission you for a Colonelcy in a Cavalry Regiment,
. . . knoAving, as I well do, that you are fully up to all the require-
ments."
118 YOXKEIiS IX THE REBELLIOS.
This recommeudation was indorsed by General W. W. Merritt,
commanding the Division, in the following words: "I cordially
concur in the within recommendation of General Devin. While I
have been in command of the Division, Captain Heermance has
been prominent as one of the best officers in the entire command,
and during my service with him last year he was more than once
selected from all the rest to conduct important expeditions."
In his three years' service with the Sixth New- York Cavalry,
Colonel Heermance was in over sixty engagements, including two
raids around Richmond, and all the principal battles in which the
Army of the Potomac took part. He has been an honored and
useful citizen of Yonkers for twenty-six years.
Ansox B. Hoyt is beliovi'd to have liccii tlic only man iiiustcrt'd
iiitd till' Union Army wlio was comiicllfil t<> use a cruti'h. < hi De-
cember 1, 1803, Governor Horatio Seymour commissioned him as
Chaplain of the One Hundred and Seventy-Fourth Regiment of New-
York Volunteers, then stationed at Franklyn, Louisiana, forming
part of the Nineteenth Army Corps, Department of the Gulf. Feb-
ruary 17, 1864, his Regiment was consolidated with the One Hun-
dred and Sixty-Second New- York Volunteers, Colonel Lewis Bene-
dict, and Cliaplain Hoyt served with that Regiment until April 1,
1864, about which time he was sent home sick. During his service,
lame as he was, he managed to mount and dismount his horse as
readily as his comrades.
.Mr. Hoyt has been the Chaplain of Lafayette Post No. 1 40, ( liand
Army of the K'eimhiic, t'oi- the last seven years.
SOME PERSONAL BECOBDS OF THE WAR. IIJ)
Alexander 0. Kirkwood enlisted as a private iu Compauy A
of the Forty-Seventh Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry Volun-
teers, Colonel Lucius B. Marsh, on September 8, 1862. The Regi-
ment was encamped on Long Island until late iu December, when
it was ordered on the screw-steamer Mississippi to go South under
sealed orders. It was so cold in camp that a soldier had frozen to
death the night before embarking; three days afterward they were
in the Grulf Stream, where heavy clothing was a burden.
On December 26, at dawn of day, appeared a steamship rapidly
approaching the Mississippi. At nine o'clock a gun boomed over
the water. All steam was put on by the engineer of the trans-
port, but to no purpose — the strange ship steadily came nearer. A
shotted gun was fired as a signal to " heave to." Then another.
All on board concluded that they were captured by the Alabama.
A long row of black muzzles appeared on each side of the stranger,
ready for action. The armament of the Mississippi was a single
gun. To the surprise of all on board, as the pursuing ship came
near, the Star Spangled Banner was run to the masthead, and it
proved to be a Union cruiser.
It was a joyful revelation. A cheer from a thousand throats
rent the air. Two hundred sailors manned the rigging. The band
struck up "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean," and hundreds of
voices united in the patriotic song. The customary questions were
asked and answered, colors were dipped in mutual salute, and the
vessels parted.
The sealed orders revealed the fact that the Regiment was bound
to New Orleans to form part of the army under General N. P. Banks.
It was kept on duty around New Orleans until the expiration of
enlistment. More than twenty-five years afterward, the circum-
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120 YOXKEIiS IN THE REBELLIOS.
stances of the naval chase were detailed at a Grand Army canij)-
fire in Yonkers, when the interesting fact came out that Captain
Matt. H. Ellis was also on board of the Mississippi at the time of
the scare.
James V. Lamtience, when the political movements ending in
the Civil War were agitating the countiy, was on the high seas as
a sailor before the mast, where he had been ordered to check the
inroads of consumption on an already impaired constitution. On
returning to the United States, in the spring of 1861, from a voyage
around Cape Horn, he at once, in April of that year, although not
yet eighteen years of age, enlisted as a private in the Second New-
York Heavy Artillery, then forming.
For various meritorious services he was rapidly promoted tiiruugh
all the subordinate gi-ades of non-commissioned officers, and in
August, 1861, was made a Second Lieutenant, then First Lieuten-
ant, and Adjutant of his Regiment, which position he retained
until the latter part of 1863, when he was transferred to the War
Department as Commissaiy of Subsistence with the rank of Cap-
tain. He was honorably mustered out of service, by special order
of the War Department, in the latter part of 1865, having previously
been breveted a Major for gallant and meritorious services.
At the second battle of Bull Run he was, by the exigencies of
the situation, forced to assume command of his Regiment, and
succeedetl in extricating it from a i)erilous surprise at a com-
paratively small loss. Althougli licing wounded, he personally saved
the Regimental colors by taking thi'tn from the disabled Color-
Sergeant, i)lacing them across his saddle, and thus carrying them
from the field.
SOME PERSONAL RECOSBS OF THE WAR. 121
A memorable episode of his military career was the price set
upon his head by Mosby's command for the capture of two of the
members of that band of infamous marauders.
At the close of the war he was for seven years in the civil ser-
\dce of the United States, and in 1868 was sent as United States
Mail Agent and Special Commissioner to Bi'azil to settle the basis
of a postal treaty with that country. On his return, at the re-
quest of Senator Sumner, he reported for the Senate Committee
on Foreign Affairs on the advisability of ratifying the proposed
treaty of purchase and annexation of the Danish West Indies.
He also, on the part of the United States, met and settled with
Mr. Anthony Trollope, for the British Government, the basis of the
postal treaty of that year with England, and, in conjunction with
Mr. Geo. F. Seward, then United States Consul-Geuei-al at Shanghai,
established the United States mail service with Japan and China.
Other postal treaties made by the United States with other countries
from 1868 to 1872 were outlined by him.
In 1872 he resigned from the pubhc service, and, after declining
an offer to enter the Japanese postal service, then organizing, re-
tui'ned, after an absence of many years, to engage in business in
his paternal home, Yonkers.
John Halstead La^\iience enlisted on March 5, 1864, when in the
fortieth year of his age, for three years of service in the Sixth New-
York Heavy Artillery, Colonel Kitching, which was then at Brandy
Station, Virginia. He was assigned to Company E.
After a year of service in this Eegiment, he volunteered, with
others, to join Light Battery M, First United States Aitillery, Cap-
tain Langdon. The transfer brought Private Lawrence into the
122 YOSKEKH IN TlIK REBELLION.
regular service, l)ut only as a volunteer. After tlic sui-render of
Lee, he was i-eturned to his former Regiment, and made Corporal.
He received his discharge on August 24, 1865.
Private Lawrence was engaged in the battle of the Wilderness,
at Spottsylvania, at Petersburg, and at Cedar Creek. After the sur-
reudei- of Loe, on Apiil 9, 1865, he was retained on guard duty at
Petersburg and vicinity until discharged. At the engagement in
what is known as the Slaughter Pen, the Sixth Regiment was sup-
porting a battery. The men were compelled to lie in the mud for
hours, inactive, and many of them were killed. Mi-. Lawrence re-
lates that a man lying near him was asleep and snoring in the midst
of the terrific noise of battle, and while in that condition received a
bullet through the head.
Mr. Lawrence was in good health throughout his service. The
only injury he received was by the kick of a mule. This was at
the battle of the Wilderness. It became necessary to advance an
ammunition-train, and part of his Company was detailed to hurry
its progress. A halt was forced, and during the wait a number of
mules passed. A winter of idleness and good feed had made these
animals unusually frisky — although, two weeks later, a mule that
could be induced to kick was a curiosity. One of these animals,
when alongside of Mr. Lawrence, wheeled around and kicked. The
soldier was holding his musket at right-shoulder shift. One heel
struck his hand, and the other the stock of the \ve;i|.nii. 'i'lie mus-
ket was whirled into the air, and the man was knocked under the
wagon. At that instant the wagon-train moved. Quick as thought,
the soldier on the opposite side of the wagon caught hold of the
]>louse of the stunned and jnostrate man, and pulled him from un-
der, just as a rear wheel was almut 1o jniss over his body.
SOME PEBSONAL BECOBDS OF THE WAS. 123
Mr. Lawrence's hand was disabled for several days. The soar
and disfigurement were permanent. He has been a resident of Yon-
kers for forty years.
Robert B. Light enlisted in Company D of the One Hundred
and Twenty-Eighth Eegiment, New -York State Infantry Volun-
teers, in August, 1862, and served as First Sergeant. The Regiment
was sent to the Department of the Gulf in the following Decem-
ber. He was at the siege of Port Hudson in the summer of 1863,
and in the Red River Campaign in 1864.
In June of that year his Regiment returned with the Nineteenth
Army Corps to the Shenandoah Valley, and he was with it in sev-
eral battles, among them Opequon, Fisher's Hill, and Cedar Creek.
In this latter battle he received a gunshot wound in the left fore-
arm. He was mustered out of service at the end of May, 1865.
James Millwaed, the present Mayor of Yonkers, was in Wash-
ington in 1861, when the Rebellion began, and he united with
three hundred others in organizing the Washington Clay Battalion,
of which Cassius M. Clay, of Kentucky, was elected Major, and Mr.
Millward was elected Adjutant. The object of the Battalion was
to aid in protecting the National Capital and its treasures from the
traitors who thronged the city.
Soon after he was selected by Simon Cameron, Secretary of War,
as bearer of Grovernment dispatches to the North. Baltimore was
then under Rebel conti-ol. He was furnished with a special locomo-
tive to convey him to Annapolis Junction, from which point he
was to reach Annapolis as best he ct)uld. On the way he was
frequently stopped by Maryland sympathizers with secession. But
124 YOSKEliS IX THE RKBEIAAOX.
he managed to reach Annapolis just as General Benjamin F.
Butler and his force arrived in that city. Adjutant Millward was
furnished with transportation to Perry\ille, and thence to Phila-
delphia, where he delivered dispatches to General Patterson, and
hastened on to New -York with dispatches for General John A. Dix
and the Union Defence Committee.
Adjutant Millward at once enlisted with tlic Xinety-Xiiith Regi-
ment of New -York Volunteers, and went direct to Fortress Monroe,
where he was appointed Captain of the Port, Harbor Master, and
Flag-of-Truee Officer. He witnessed the destruction of the United
States men-of-war by the Rebel ironclad Merrimae, and the dis-
comfiture of that formidable vessel by the Monitor, and sent the
first official report of the conflict to Washington. When Norfolk
was captured he piloted the steamer that conveyed President Lin-
coln to that city. Captain Millward rciiiaiiied at Fortress Monroe
until ISti.'), ami when RicliiiioiHl was captured lie conveyed Presi-
dent Lincoln uj, tile .lames River to the Rebel .-ai.ital.
John H. Morkis was appointed Internal Revenue Collector iu
1863, by President Lincoln, for the Tenth Congressional District,
comprising Westchester, Putnam and Rockland Counties. Then
Yonkers had but ten thousand inhabitants, but contributi'd a large
proportion of the war tax of the district, owing to the manul'actories
and incomes of residents of the village.
Mr. Morris paid over $800,000 to the (ioveniment in one year.
This amount included moneys received for substitutes. .Ml the
tiimls of his olliee passed through the First National i>ank of
Yonkers.
SOME PERSONAL RECORDS OF THE WAR. 125
William H. Nodine, a private in the Ninth Infantry Eegiment
of the New -York State Militia, under date of Hagerstown, Mary-
land, September 19, 1862, thus wrote to his father in Yonkers :
Before this reaches you I suppose you will have heard of another great battle,
about four miles from Shai-psburg. It was fought on the 16th. There was great
slaughter on both sides. The battle began at daybreak. We of General Hart-
suff's Brigade led the advance of the whole Division. We advanced thi-ough a corn-
field, then to a thick woods, where the Rebels opened fire on us ; but we advanced
steadily at a quick march, ouv Brigadier-General leading us. We took our position
by a rail fence, and held it until our Brigade was cut to pieces. My comrades feU
on both sides of me, but thank God my haversack saved me. A minie-baU passed
through it, tearing the whole side out.
I think the Yonkers boys are safe, but I have not seen Henry A. Chadeayne since
the time I was ordered to take my wounded comrade to the rear. He was shot in
the neck, and fell against me. While I was assisting him to the rear, he received
a ball in his thigh, but he is doing well. Our Regiment lost twelve killed and one
hundred and twenty-five wounded. Many of the wounded have since died. General
Hartsuff is seriously wounded. The whole Brigade now numbers but half of a full
Regiment. But thank God we drove the Rebels from their position, and captured
many pieces of artillery.
Thomas Oliver, at the age of seventeen, enlisted as a private in
Company G, Thirty-Seventh Infantry Volunteers, and served with
that Regiment in the Army of the Potomac, from the spring of
1861, until it was mustered out June 22, 1863, taking part in
twenty-two engagements. He returned to New- York, and was in
the city during the riots, July 13-26, 1863. While viewing the
ruins of the Colored Orphan Asylum, which had been burned by
the rioters, he was assaulted by a mob because they noticed that he
wore the blue pantaloons of a Union soldier.
The week following he enlisted as a private in Company C of
the Eighteenth New- York Cavalry, and served with that Regiment
in the Department of the Gulf, as a bugler, in all of its thirty-four
126 YONKERS IX THE liEBELUOy.
engagemeuts. His only wound was received in the engagement at
Governor Moor's Plantation, near Alexandria, Louisiana, May 5,
1864, on which day there was continuous fighting from eight o'clock
in the morning until siindown. He was acting as Orderly on that
day, and as such was a special target for the enemy, as they appeared
to be aiming specially at officers. A bullet passed through his horse,
and struck Orderly Oliver's foot. The horse threw and dragged
him on the ground. Dr. G. B. Balch, the present Commander of
John C. Fremont Post of Yonkers, was Brigade Surgeon on the
field, and dressed the wound. At the time he was thrown. ( )rderly
Oliver lost a Veteran's badge of his first enlistment. In tin- spring
of 1890 this badge was turned u\) by a farmer's i)low. A notice of
the finding appeared in a New- York paper, Mr. Oliver A\Tote to the
Superintendent of National Cemeteries in Louisiana, sent proof of
his identity, and the badge was returned.
After five years' service and fifty-six engagements, he was mustered
out witli the Eighteenth New-York Cavalry. M.iy :'., 1S(;(;. He is
now Annnivr of the Fourth Separate Company of Yonkers.
AuuAHAXi J. Palmer was born in Frenchtown, New Jersey, Jan-
uary 18, 1847, in the Methodist parsonage, while his father was
preacher in charge at that place. When the South made war upon
the Union, he was attending school, and though he was but a little
over fourteen years of age, on July 30, 18G1, he enlisted as a pri-
vate in Comj)auy D, Foi-ty-Eighth Regiment New-York State
Volunteers, Colonel .lames 11. Pci'iy, and was iniistcicil out Sep-
tember "20, lS(i4. lie ])artieipa1e,| in the engagements at I'ort Royal,
I'oit K'oyal Feiiy. Dawfuskie Island, Fort Pulaski, Blufton, ( 'oosa-
walchie. l'.,eotali-o. Morris Island, Fort Wagner, Bennnilaliuiidied,
SOME PERSONAL RECORDS OF THE WAR. 127
Strawberry Plains, and Petersburg. Much of the time he acted as
Orderly to the Colonel.
He was captured at the assault on Fort Wagner, September 18,
1863, and for nine months suffered the hardships of Confederate
prisons in Charleston and Columbia, in Libby, Belle Island, and
Mayo's Prison Hospital, Eichmond, Virginia.
After the war he prepared for coUege at Pennington Seminary,
New Jersey, and entered Wesleyan University at Middletown, Con-
necticut, where he graduated with the highest honors in 1870. He
■was then admitted to the Newark Conference, and entered upon
the work of a Methodist minister. In 1876 he was transferred
to the New-York Conference, and stationed at the Park Avenue
Chiu'ch, where he subsequently served a second pastorate of three
years. In 1885 the degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred
upon him by the Syracuse University and by Allegheny College.
He was appointed pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church
in Yonkers, in the spring of 1886. The following year he was
made Presiding Elder of the New- York District, but has continued
his residence in Yonkers.
Dr. Palmer is a natural and cultivated orator. Probably his
most popular effort is his lecture on " The Die-No-Moi"es." This is
an eloquent tribute to the private soldier. Company D, to which
Dr. Palmer belonged, was largely composed of young men from
Christian homes. At their camp-fires they would sing familiar
hymns. A favorite with them was the hymn with this refrain :
" We 're going home, we 're going home,
We 're going home to die no more ! "
And so Company D came to be known as " The Die-No-Mores."
In the lecture the heroism and sufferings of the young patriots are
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128 YOXKEIiS IK THE REBELLIOX.
gi-aphically portrayal. It was twice delivered before Ot'iiei-al
Grant, who was deeply affected by it; aud after his death, at Mrs.
Grant's request, it was delivered before a vast concourse on Patriot
Day at the Silver Lake, Chautauqua, in July, 1890. There has
been a demand for the lecture from various parts of the country
every season since its first delivery, and it always stirs an audience
and arouses a lofty patriotism. Dr. Palmer enjoys the distinction
of })oiiifj; the youngest enlisted private Union soldier of the war.
Kali'h E. PiUME was l>orn in Fishkill, Dutchess County, New-
York, March "JH, 1840. He enlisted in the war for the Union, as pri-
vate, April 30, 1861, in the Fifth New- York Volunteers, known as the
Duryea Zouaves. He was promoted to be Sergeant, June 8, 1861 ;
Second Lieutenant, September 5, 1861; First Lieutenant, July 4,
1862; Captain, September 30, 1862 — the last two promotions being
for gallantry in the field. He was subsequently transferred to the
Sixth New-York Artillery, as Lieutenant-Colonel; and on March 5,
1863, he was nominated l)y President Lincoln for Brigadier-General.
On detached service in October and November, 1861, he super-
intended the construction of a fort at Relay House Junction, Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad, Maryland. He was in the skirmish at
New Kent Court-House, and also in the campaign on the Eastern
shore of Virginia and Maryland.
He was engaged in tlic following liattles: Big Bethel, .Iniic 10,
1861; Siege of Y'orktown, April, 1S62; Hanover Court-House, May,
1862; Ashland Bridge, May, 1862 ; Mechanicsville, June 26; Gaines's
Mill, June 27, wlnr.' a musket-ball passed through his thigh; South
.Mountain, Sii>1iiiili,i- 14; Antietam, September 17; Blackford's
Fnnl, September 2(1, lS(i2.
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When appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the Sixth New- York Ar-
tillery, he found that the feelings of the officers were strongly en-
listed in favor of the former incumbent of the office, and being
convinced that he could not serve as efficiently, under the peculiar
circumstances, as his rival, who was endeared by former association
and acquaintance with the Regiment, he waived his undoubted right,
and resigned in his favor. In appreciation of this act, Edwin M.
Stanton, Secretary of War, wrote to Lieutenant-Colonel Prime,
under date of February 28, 1863 : " Your i-esignatiou was received
to-day by the Department, and accepted. To mark my approval
of your coxirse, and estimate of your character and services, your
name has been placed on the list of Brigadier-Grenerals to be nom-
inated on Monday." The appointment failed to receive confirma-
tion through some hitch in the Senate.
After returning to civil life, Mr. Prime resumed his profession
of the law in Youkers, where he still remains, enjoying a large and
lucrative practice.
William Riley was born in Yonkers, on the 18th of May, 1840.
On the 9th of October, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company
G, Fifty-First Regiment of New- York Volunteers. On going to
the front the Regiment formed part of the Burnside expedition to
North Carolina. It participated in the battles of Roanoke Island
and Newbern, both of which resulted in victories for the Union
Army. He also participated in the battles of second Bull Run and
Chantilly, Virginia, and in the battles of South Mountain and
Antietam, Maryland.
In the charge on the Stone Bridge, during the latter engagement,
Mr. Riley received a gunshot wound which shattered his left arm,
130 YONKEBS AY ThJ-: UKhELLlOX.
rendering amputation necessary near the shoulder. He was hon-
o7-a])ly discharged from the sei-\nce December 5, 1862. Eeturn-
ing to Yonkers, he studied law with Ralph E. Prime, and has con-
tinued to practice in liis nativi' city to the present time.
James Sheridan enlisted May 19, 1801, as a private in Company
F, Fifth New-York Infantry Volunteers, in which he served two
years. In the second battle of Bull Run he was wounded by a baU
that entered above the right hip and came out just below the breast-
bone. He lay upon the ground within the enemy's lines for seven
days without attention. " I 'vc a good mind to put you out of your
misery," said a heartless Confederate, "Ijy i-unniiig my l)ayonet
through you."
At the time of the New-York riots ]Mr. Sheridan had served out
his first enlistment, and was working for Isaiah Anderson in Yon-
kers. "John T. Waring and Ethan Flagg came to me," says Mr.
Slieridan, "and askcl if I would patrol lino- HiH and tli.'(;l.'n at
night, as they liad not lict-n alilc to find any one to iicrfonn that
sei'vice. I coni])lied with the recjuest, and was sworn in by Lyman
Cobb, Jr. The headquarters were in Fan-ington Hall. I had to
report every night at twelve o'clock and at four in the morning."
He reenlisted in Company B, Second Connecticut Heavy Artil-
lery. During his serN-ice he fouglit in sixteen general engagements.
He was in the first line of skirniisliers at Apjiomattox Court-House
when Lee .surrendered to CJeneral Grant.
Frederic Shonnard, in the spring of the year 18G1, at the out-
break of the Rebellion, was a member of the Hamilton College Law
School at Clinton, New- York. Having liad tlif a<lvantage of a
SOME PERSONAL RECORDS OF THE WAR. 131
careful traiuiiig in the cWll of the infantry soldier, company and
battalion, by a gi'aduate of West Point, he, although not yet of
age, was at that time one of the few competent drill-masters in that
neighborhood. Upon the ascertainment of this fact, and of his
willingness to act as instructor, early in the month of May, between
two and three hundred spirited young men, students of the college,
and others resident in the neighborhood, assembled in a large room
in the basement of the Methodist Church, effected a temporary
organization, and under his management commenced a vigorous
course of drill. Many men who have since become famous were
members of that "awkward squad." Amongst the number were
the present United States Attorney- General Miller and Colonel
George H. Starr, of Libby Prison fame, now a resident of Yonkers.
Mr. Shonnard was active in organizing a Company for the Four-
teenth Eegiment New- York Infantry of Oneida County, which
went to the war about the 17th of May, 1861. He was offered the
Captaincy, but declined the position out of respect for the remon-
strances of his parents, whose only child he was. A little over a
year latei", with their consent, he assisted in the organization of the
One Hundred and Thirty-Fifth Eegiment New- York Infantry in
Westchester County, — which was afterward changed to the Sixth
New- York Artillery, — and accepted a commission as First Lieu-
tenant of Company K.
He was mustered into the service on September 2, 1862, was pro-
moted to the rank of Captain, and finally to that of Major, for meri-
torious services, and was honorably discharged January 28, 1865.
Mr. Shonnard participated in all of the campaigns with his Regi-
ment until about the 19th of July, 1864, when he was detailed by
the Seci-etary of War to a special duty on the staff of the Gov-
132 YOXKEBS IX THE UEBELLIOX.
ernor of the State of New-York, connected with the threatened
raids by the Rebels in Canada on the northern borders of the State.
In command of his Company, he participated in the engagement
at Wapping Heights, Vii-ginia, July 26, 1863. As an acting aide on
the staff of Brigadier-General Robert 0. Tyler, during the brief
Mine Run Campaign, his Company having been detailed as a train-
guard, he participated in the two battles near Robertson's Tavern,
November 28-29, 1863; and in tli.' Mine Run operations, November
30, 1863.
During the winter of 1863 and 1864 he was promoted to tlie rank
of Major, and was ordered home on recruiting service. Having
secured some five hundred recruits by enlistment and transfer, he
reported for duty on the battle-field of Spottsylvania. In command
of his Battalion of four companies he participated in the battle of
Harris's Farm, on the 19th of May, which was one of the Spottsyl-
vania series — the Regiment then belonging to the Fifth Army
Corps. Ill cuiiimaiid of liis Battalion he also took part in the fol-
lowing cugageuuuits : the forced crossing of the North Anna Ivi vor,
May 23; second advance. May 24; Jericho Road, near North Anna
River, May 25; operations in that neighborhood. May 26 and 27;
Bethesda Church, part of Cold Harbor, May 30; Mechanics\ille
Pike, June 1 ; Mechanicsville Pike, second position, June 2 ; Mechan-
icsville Pike, third position or Cold Harbor, June 3 ; Chickahoniiny,
near Long Bridge, June 13 ; assault on Petersburg, June IS; act ivcl y
engaged with the enemy before Petersburg on Jnne 19, 20, 21, 22,
2.3, 24, and 2."); and the siege of Petersburg.
^lajoi- Slioiiii,ir<l i-cicivi'd no wonn<l wliicli he considerc.l woi'th
iiMMilion, Km lir nearly (lird ^^\ typhoid U-wv during tin- K'apiijan
Canipai;,^! in lS(i;;, and Ids horsi's were shot nnd.i' liim on three
SOME PEE SON AL RECORDS OF THE WAR. 133
occasions. He is a member of the first class of the Military Order
of the Loyal Legion, of the Society of the Army of the Potomac,
of the Grand Army of the Eepublic, and was the first President of
the Fraternity of the Survivors of the Sixth New- York Ai-tillery.
Samuel Stevens was born in Somers, Westchester County, New-
York, November 12, 1836. In July, 1861, he enlisted as a private
in Company D, First New- York Lincoln Cavalry. He was pro-
moted successively as Corporal, Sergeant, First Lieutenant, Cap-
tain, and Brevet Major, and served to the close of the war.
He was in the battles of Annandale, Fairfax Court-House, Sang-
stei-'s Station, in the siege of Yorktown, battles of West Point,
Fair Oaks, Gaines's Mill, Savage's Station, White Oak Swamp,
Malvern Hill, Five Forks, Winchester, Martinsburg, Fisher's Hill,
Cedar Creek, Appomattox, &e. In February, 1863, he was taken
prisoner near Winchester, and conveyed to Libby Prison, but was
soon paroled at Citj^ Point.
Captain Stevens states that he led the charge at Sailor's Creek,
and captured General Ewell and staff. "He presented me," con-
tinues Captain Stevens, "with his field-glass as a souvenir of the
occasion. I turned him over to General Custer, one of the bravest
men that ever lived."
James Stewakt, Jr., at the age of twenty, responded to the call of
President Lincoln for 75,000 three-year men to put down the South-
ern Rebellion, and in Danbury enlisted as a private in Company
A, Fifth Regiment of the Connecticut Volunteers. He passed
through all the intermediate grades, and returned with his Com-
pany as Captain at the close of the war. He was in all the engage-
i;^4 YONKEHS IN THE HEIIKJ.I.IOX.
luents ill the Sheiiaudoali Valley under General X. l\ liaiiks,
iucludiiig the memorable retreat in May, ISH'J; in the battle of
Cedar Mountain; the second Bull ii'iin ('amiiaiirn; lln- battles of
Antietani, Fredericksburg, — his first engagement as a commissioned
officer, — Chancellors\'ille — during which he was slightly wounded
and taken prisoner, but escaped and joined his Company just pre-
vious to the fall of General Stonewall Jackson. His next important
engagement was at Gettysburg.
In September, 1863, his Regiment was transferred to the Depart-
ment of the Cumberland, under General Hooker, and took part in
the battle of Lookout Mountain, the capture of Atlanta, the battles
of Ringgold, Tunnell Hill, Snake Hill Gap, Resaca, and Dallas. Dur-
ing this last engagement. Generals Hooker and Williams were
caught in a very embarrassing position. They sought protection,
bchiml the cdnicr of a stone wall, from a Rebel force in anilmsh,
and could not niovi; -without being exposed to their lire. Lieuten-
ant Stewart, in coniniand of two Companies, went to their relief.
" Wlicic are the Rebs ?" was asked. General Hooker stood up to
point out the location of the enemy, when Vjalls whizzed thick and
fast about his head. He dropped very suddeuty behind the wall,
and shouted, "Over there!" pointing in the direction of danger.
Lieutenant St. -wart and his men made ;i dash, the Rebs got out of
the way, and the two Generals were liaiipily releaseil.
The next engagement in wiiich Lieutenant Stewart took part
with his Regiin<;n( was the battle of Pin.' Knoli, whnv h.' saw the
shell explode that kili-'d the Confederate (ini.nd I'olk.
Swinging around on Marietta, the next battle was at Kulp's
Farm. While repulsing a charge in this battle, Lieutenant Stewart
received a niinie-ltall in thr uppiT jiart of his right thigh, wlii.-h
SOME PERSONAL RECORDS OF THE WAR. 135
disabled him. It was thought the wound would prove fatal, and
he was sent home. Careful nursing and treatment, however, so far
restored him as to enable him to return to the field, though he still
carries the minie-ball in his leg as a reminder of the Southern
Confederacy. He reached G-eneral Thomas's army just in time to
take a special command in the battle of Nashville.
The Fifth Connecticut Regiment formed part of Greneral Sher-
man's army in the march through Georgia, and was on a return
march from the Atlantic Coast to the interior, when Lieutenant
Stewart was welcomed back to his Company as Captain. He was in
the engagement at Averysborough, where he lost his First Lieuten-
ant, and in the battles of Goldsborough and Raleigh; was present at
the surrender of General Joseph E. Johnston ; marched in the grand
review in Washington on the restoration of peace, and returned
with his Regiment to Connecticut. As a brave and valiant soldier
he was distinguished even in a Regiment noted for brave and val-
iant qualities. Captain Stewart is a manufacturing hatter, and has
been a respected public-spirited citizen of Yonkers since 1867.
William Welsh enlisted for the war in May, 1861, as a private
in Company A, Ninth New- York State Militia, afterward changed
to the Eighty-Third New- York State Infantry Volunteers. He
was assigned to Company D, Sixty-Eighth New- York State Infan-
try Volunteers, and successively promoted to Second Lieutenant,
First Lieutenant, and Captain.
He was in the battles of Harper's Ferry, Winchester, South
Mountain, second Bull Run, Chancellorsville, Antietam, Fredericks-
burg, Gettysburg, &c. He was twice knocked down by spent shells,
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but was never seriously hurt. After nearly fom* years of active
service he was honorably discharged in December, 1864.
He went into the dry-goods business in New-York after tlie war,
where he continued until he came to Yonkers as one of the fii-iu of
Weller & Welsh.
David A. Winans enlisted in Company A of the Fourth Regiment,
New- York State Heavy Artillery Volunteers, Novemliei- 1, 1861, and
served continuously for four years. He was in all llic engagements
of his Regiment during that time, and was not absent for a day.
In February, 1862, his Regiment was detailed to the Army of
the Potomac, and remained in defence of the capital for altout
a year.
In the little at K'eani's Station, Virginia, August 25, 1864, the
Regiment lo.'^t 'Mo men in killed, wounded, and missing. Cor-
poral Winans was taken prisoner just as he had finished loading
his gun, and his piece was fired upon the Union forces. He was
soon rescued, however, and returned to his Regiment.
On the 20th of April, 1865, while in pursuit of Lee from Peters-
burg, his Regiment made a charge upon Rebel works at Suther-
land's Station. Sergeant Bogan and Corporal Winans rushed over
the works. The Rebels ran. "Halt! surrender !" was the shout.
About thirty obeyed. Two Rebel cannon, ready loaded, were tm-ued
upon the retreating foes and fii-ed. Tliev also ea]>tnred tlie Rebel
colors.
At Hatcher's Run, Mrginia, in October, 1864, Corporal Winans
was wounded in the right shoulder, but not seriously. He was
mustered out of service Xoveniber 5, 1S65.
SOME PERSONAL BECOBDS OF THE WAR. 137
M. X. WiSEWELL conducted a Military School on South Broad-
way, corner of Hudson Street, Yonkers, and afterward at Perth
Ambo\', New Jersey. At the commencement of the Rebellion he
was appointed Colonel of the Twenty-Eighth New Jersey Regi-
ment, and served with distinction. At the battle of Fredericksburg
he was shot through the mouth, and was supposed to be mortally
wounded. He recovered, however, and was appointed by President
Lincoln as Military Groveruor of Washington, in which capacity he
did excellent service. He was appointed a Brigadier-Greneral of
Volunteers by President Johnson.
After the war. General Wisewell engaged in mercantile business
in New- York and Chicago. He died in the former city, April 11,
1888. He was born in Brandon, Vermont, May 15, 1827, and was
buried in the family vault at Pompton Plains.
9^(K
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ON THE WEST SIDE.
THE NAVAL STATUE.
This statue was t^.sigued by Lieutenant Wasliiugtou Irving Chambers,
of the United States Ship Petrel. It represents a sailor about to engage
an enemy in a hand-to-hand struggle. It is exceedingly graphic. The
sculptor and bronze-workers have well retained the spirit of the original
drawing. The figure is of high artistic merit, and a perfect embodiment of
lofty daring. One critic said the expression was too intense ; but it should
be remembered that the character represented is intense, and that he has
intense work before him. luscriptious:
(Uniler the Statue)
COURAGE.
(On the Die)
THE UNION
MUST
AND SHALL BE
PRESERVED.
THE UNION SAVED.
CHAPTER X.
OUR HEROES' LAST SLEEP.
At Rest in St. John's, Oakland, St. Mary's, and St. Joseph's Cem-
eteries — Their Graves Kept in Reverent Remembrance.
MANY of our brave defenders have crossed the great river,
never to return. Their memories are dear to us, and we
thus silently, with dewy eye and bowed head, tenderly commit their
names to our children and children's children to remotest genera-
tions, for their reverence and esteem. In the cemeteries of our
city lie all that is left of our heroes. Loving hearts and willing
hands may decorate their gi-aves.
NAMES OF SOLDIERS BURIED IN ST. JOHN S, OAKLAND,
ST. MARY'S, AND ST. JOSEPH'S CEMETERIES.
AiNSWORTH, Joseph, Company A, Seventeenth Regiment New-York Volunteers.
Archer, Nathan, Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
Barnes, Frederick E., Company F, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery.
Beasley, James E., Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
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1J4 YOXKEKS IX THE HEliEl.LIOX.
Bills, Colonel, United States Army.
Bowler, Elijah, Company L, First Regiment New- York Engineers.
Brazier, James, Sr., Company I, One Hundred and Fifty-Ninth Regiment New-
York Volunteers.
Brazil, James, Company A, Seventeenth Regiment New-York Volunteers.
Broderick, Cornelius, Company A, United States Infantry.
Brown, James, Fifth Regiment New-York Volunteers.
Bromley, James, Company A, Seventeenth Regiment New-York Volunteers.
Cadiz, James.
Cahill, Thomas, Company C, Fifth Regiment New-York Volunteers.
Cahill, William.
Cannon, W. F., Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
Clancy, Henry, Company I, Second Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
Cle\t:land, Henry.
CoNTJELL, William, Company A, Seventeenth Regiment New- York Volunteers
and Company B, Second Regiment Connecticut Heavy Artillery.
Cook, George, Fortieth Regiment New-York Volunteers.
Cope, Willlvm, Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
Costello, Joseph, Company F, Second Regiment New-York Artillery.
Cronin, Eugene, Company I, Ninety-Fifth Regiment New-York Volunteei-s.
CUMMINGS, WiLLiAJi, Sixty-Ninth Regiment New-York Volunteers.
Cunningham, John .J., Company A, First Regiment California Volunteers.
Danks, W. H.. Company H, Fifteenth Regiment New York Volunteers.
Dean, Scott, Company I, Ninety-Fifth Regiment New- York Volunteers.
DeWitt, Henry.
Donahue, Bernard, Company A, Tenth Regiment New-York Volunteers.
Donelly, Andrew, Company A. Tenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers.
DOWNES, ClL\RLES A.
Doyle, Harold.
Dromley, William.
Dubois, W. H., Fittli Kiginunt United States Cavalry.
Dupp, Delmar.
DupPY, Patrick, Company I, Twenty-Seventh Regiment New- York St;>lc Militia.
Easton, Frederick J., Seventh Regiment New-York National Guards.
Everest, James, Company D, Fifty-Fir.st Regiment Massjichusetts Volunteers.
Faulds, Matthew, Company E, Ninety-Third Regiment New-York Volunteers.
Fenton. John, Company E, Seventy-Ninth Reginieiit New-York Volunteers.
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Ferguson, H. B., Company C, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
FiTZGERAi^D, John, Company F, United States Infantry.
Foster, Charles W., Company D, Fifth Eegiment New- York Volunteers.
Gaul, Theodore, Company D, Fifth Regiment New-York Militia.
Geary, Thomas, Company I, Ninety-Fifth Regiment New -York Volunteers.
GiLLEO, John, Company D, Fifty-Ninth Regiment New- York Volunteers.
Glosque, Joseph, Company G, Forty-Fu'st Regiment New-York Volunteers.
Gracy, John, Company F, One Hundred and Fifteenth Regiment New- York Vol-
imteers ; Company C, Eighteenth Regiment New-York Volunteers.
Granger, James.
Greely, Patrick H., United States Navy.
Green, James H.
Guilford, , Company B, Sixteenth Regiment New-York Volunteers.
Haggerty, John, Company A, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
Hamilton, John, Sixty-Fourth Regiment New- York Volunteers.
Hamilton, William, Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
Hampson, Eli, Company A, Seventeenth Regiment New-York Cavalry ; and First
Regiment Veteran Cavalry.
Hayes, William, Brigadier-General United States Army.
Hendrick, a. a.. Company H, Eighty-Sixth Regiment New- York Volunteers.
HiCKEY, Thomas, Company C, Fom-teenth Regiment United States Infantry.
HiCKTON, James, Company D, Sixteenth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers.
Hill, Thomas, Company A, Seventeenth Regiment New- York Volunteers.
Holler, Francis, Company L, Third Regiment New-York Cavalry.
HuLSE, Chauncey, Company I, Fifth Regiment New-York Volmiteers.
HuMBERS, Joseph, Company B, Seventy-Fourth Regiment New- York Volunteers.
Humphrey, George, Company C, Sixty-First Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers.
Hurst, Hugh.
Kane, Michael.
Kearns, Thomas, Company C, Thii-d Regiment New-York Volunteers ; and First
Regiment New-York Volunteers.
Keenan, Edward, Company A, Sixty-Fifth Regiment New- York Volunteers ; and
Company B, Sixty-Seventh Regiment New- York Volunteers.
Kelly, Patrick, Lieutenant Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery.
Kniffen, Abram, Lieutenant Seventh New-York Independent Battery.
Kniffen, John, Company B, Seventh Independent Volunteers.
Koch, Bernard, Company D, Fifty-Second Regiment New- York Infantry.
140 YOXKEIiS IX THE KEBELLIOS.
Lawtience, Charles E.
Lee, Robert.
LUNT, Jacob, Company H, Thirty-Second Regiment New-York Volunteers.
Latjch, Terrence, Company D, Seventy-Third Regiment New-York Volunteers.
Lynt, Frederick B., Company B, Sixth Regiment New-York Vohmteers.
Maran, John.
Martin, James, Company H, Eighth Regiment New-York Volunteers.
McCoy, James, Company K, Second Regiment District of C'olumbia Volunteers.
!\I( ni:A\v. John, Forty-Third Regiment New- York Volunteers.
M. l.\r.,HLlN.
.M' -AIiNN, Thomas, United States Cavalry.
McNamara, John, Company A, Seventeenth Regiment New- York Volunteers.
McViCKER, James, Fifty-Ninth Regiment New-York Volunteers.
Mitchell, Thojias, Seventeenth Regiment New-York Volunteers ; and Compan y
D, Twelfth New- York Volunteers.
MoROAN, Francis.
Mom; AN, Frank A., Fiflh Hi-gimeiit .\ew-York Volunteers.
M(>K(iAN, Henry.
Morris, Arthcr, Company A, Fourth Regiment New- York Cavalry.
Morris, Edmund Y, Major Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery.
Morris, Thojias F., Colonel Seventeenth Regiment New- York Volunteers.
MuuPHY, J.uiES, Company F, Fifth Regiment New- York Volunteers.
Murphy, William.
Murray, W. J., Company A, Tenth Regiment New- York Volunteers.
NoDiNE, Benjamin, Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
NoDiNE, Clark, Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
Nodi'ne, Georoe.
NODINE, W. H.
Nolan, (tEORGE, Company II, Thirty-Second Regiment New-York Volunteers.
Oakley, William, Company A, Fifty-Sixth Regiment New- York Volunteers.
O'Donnell, Patrick, Company D, Second Regiment New-York Artillery.
O'Hara, Henry, Company F, One Hundred and Sixty-Second Kegiment Niw-York
Volunteers.
O'HolKKK, .Iamks, United States Navy.
Paddock, tiKoHtii:.
Paddock. William P.. Soldier ot' War of ISl'J.
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Parse, Hollis H., Company G, Thirty-Second Regiment New- York Volunteers.
Past, Christian.
Pease, Charles H., Company F, Eighth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers.
Percival, Wilder B., Seventeenth Regiment United States Militia.
Pettit, Thomas.
Pollock.
Pollock, Robert A., Company F, Fifth Regiment New-York Volunteers.
Pope, William, Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
Price, Thomas R., Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
Reynolds, James A., First Regiment New-York Volunteers.
Reynolds, Thomas, Company B, Sixty- Fifth Regiment New- York Volunteers.
RiCEVER, Wilder, Company G, Seventeenth Regiment New- York State MiUtia.
Right, William, Company E, Ninety-Ninth Regiment New-York Volunteers.
RiORDAN, Gilbert, Lieutenant-Colonel, Thirty- Seventh Regiment New-York
Volunteers.
Rockwell, George S.
schiling.
Schultse, Abram, Company D, One Hundi-ed and Fiftieth Regiment New-Yoi"k
Volunteers.
Shannon, Edward, Eighth Regiment New- York Mihtia.
Shannon, Philip, Company D, Sixty-Ninth Regiment New- York Militia.
Sickly, James M., Thirty-Second Regiment New-York Volunteers.
Skinner, John W., Sixth Regiment Missouri Volunteers.
Smith, John, Company G, Fifty-Seventh Regiment New-York Volunteers.
Springer, Louis, Lieutenant, Twenty-Second Regiment, Connecticut.
Starr, Edward A., Sergeant, Company H, Fifth Massachusetts Infantry Volunteers ;
and Company F, Eighth Regiment, United States.
Ste\t;ns, John, Seventeenth Regiment New- York Mihtia.
Swift, S. M., Company J, Eighth Regiment New- York Volunteers.
Trask, George, Company E, Seventy-Thii-d Regiment New- York Volunteers.
Turner, Owen, Company G, Fifth Regiment New- York Volunteers.
Van Orden, Albert, Company A, Seventeenth Regiment New- York Volunteers.
Wallace, John, Company D, Twenty-Third Regiment United States Infantry.
Welsh, James, United States Navj'.
Welsh, Richard, Company F, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavj' Artillery.
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14H YOXKEKS L\ rilK KEBELUOS.
Welsh, William.
Whalan, Patrick.
WiLLOUGHBY, CHARLES W., Company D, Fourth Regiment New- York Heavy
Artillery.
Wilson, W. C, Company K, Second Regiment Connecticut Liglit ArtilK ry.
WoNDEELiE, Philip, Company H, Forty-Fifth Regiment New-York Volunteers.
WooLHEisER, Caleb T., Company G, One Hundred and Second Regiment New-
York Volunteers.
Wright, William, Company E, Ninety-Ninth Regiment New-York VoUmteers.
Wyeker, Christian, Company I, First Regiment New- York Volunteers.
Yerks, George T., Company B, First Regiment New-York Cavalry.
Comrade of Judsox Kilpatrick Post, One Ilmidred ami Forty-Tiiird Regiment
New- York.
Thirteen Unknown Graves.
DIED IN THE SERVICE.
Burgess, David, Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavj- Artillery.
Halves, J.\C'0B, Company F, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy ArtilK-ry.
Sherwood, Joseph M., Company F, Sixth Rcginieiit New-York Heavy Artiller
DIED IN YONKEHS. lU'lUE!) EESEWIIEHE.
Gn.LEO, Jacob, Sergeant, Company F, Sixth New York Heavy Artillery.
Keves, Edwin R., Chaplain, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
Taylor, Henry H.. Company H. One Hundred and Sixth Regiment New-York
Volimteers.
Wandell, Evert H., Musician, Conipany F. Sixth Nrw-York Heavy .\rtillery.
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CHAPTER XI.
A BOLL OF HONOR.
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS OF THE WAR NOW OR LATELY RESIDING
IN YONKERS.
Acker, James, Company A, SLxty-Fourth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers.
AiNSWOETH, Allen, Company G, Tbdrty- Sixth Regiment New- York Volunteers.
Allison, Robebt, Company G, Thii-ty-Sixth Regiment New -York Infantry Vol-
unteers; Company E, Twelfth Regiment New- York Militia; Company D,
Fifteenth Regiment New-York Engineers.
Allen, Charles, Company F, Fifth Regiment New- York Volunteers.
Ames, Allen, Company B, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
Archer, Oscar F., Company E, Eighth Regiment New- York Militia.
Armstrong, Jambs, Company K, One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Regiment
New- York Infantry Volunteers.
Atkins, Francis H., Forty-Fourth Massachusetts Volunteers; Acting Assistant
Surgeon, United States Navy.
AuLD, James, United States Navy.
Babcock, Jeremiah, Company B, Fifth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers.
Bailey, Augustus, Musician, Seventh Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers.
Baker, Fisher A., Lieutenant-Colonel, Eighteenth Regiment Massachusetts Infan-
try Volunteers.
Balch, Galusha B., Assistant-Surgeon, Ninety-Eighth Regiment New- York Infan-
try Volunteers ; Second Regiment Veteran Cavalry New- York Volunteers.
Baldwin, Charles E.
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150 Y ON K Kits IN THE liEBELLION.
Baldwin, John, Company G, One Hundred and Second Regiment New- York
Infantry Volunteers.
Baldwin, William H., Captain, Company L, First Repnient New-York Enjrineers.
Ball, Wn.Lnsi C.
Barker, Oscar F., United States Navy.
Bahnes, Jerome D., Company F, Sixteenth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillen,-.
Bartlett, William H. C, Professor at West Point.
Beaumont, Williasi H., United States Navy.
Becker, Henrv, Company F, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery.
Belknap, Willum H., Company A, Thirteenth Regiment New-York Mihtia.
Bennett, Michael, Company F, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery.
Betts, Charles D., Company H, One Himdred and Thirty-Second Regiment New-
York Infantry Volunteers.
Betts, George, United States Navy.
Blackett, William C, Company H, One Hundred and Second Regiment New-
York Infantrj- Volunteers.
Blair, James H., Company G, First Regiment Connecticut Infantry Volunteers.
Blau\'elt, Willlvm.
Bradley, Samuel, United States Navy.
Brady, Jeremiah, Comi)aiiy B. Twelfth Massac-husctt.s Battery.
Brady, Thomas.
Brazier, Ja.mes, Conipany H, One lluiulred and Fiftieth New-York Infantry Vol-
unteers.
Brennan, Thomas, United States Navy.
Brill, Jacob G., Company E, Second Regiment New Jersey Volunteers.
Brower, John F., Company H, First Regiment United States Sharp Shooters.
Brown, Abram, Company I (Scott Life Guards), Fourth Regiment New- York In-
fantry Volunteers.
Brown, Calvin C, Company B, Sixth Regiment New-Yoik Heavy Artillery.
Brown, John W., Company B, Sixth Regiment New-York Hea\'>- Artillerj-.
Brown, Samuel F., Company F, Second Regiment New- York Cavalry.
Burke, James, Company F, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery.
Butler, John, Company B, Fifth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers ;
Company F, Fifth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers.
Bynon, John Willett, Company E, Fii-st Regiment New- York Engineers.
Cahill, John J., Company F, Twenty-Second Regiment New-York Cavalrj-.
Callahan, Thomas, Company I), Forty-First Regiment New- York Infantry Vol-
unteers.
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Cantwell, Michael J., Company C, Thirtieth Regiment Massachusetts Infantry
Volunteers.
Carey, JoH^f, Company E, Sixty-Ninth Regiment New-York Infantry Vokmteers.
Cabrall, Bernard, Company F, Fourteenth Regiment Indiana Infantry Volun-
teers.
Carroll, Willlwi, Company C, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
Carter, James W., United States Navy ; Company C, Sixth Regiment New- York
Heavy Artillery.
Casey, Daniel, Company F, Sixth Regiment New-York Hea^'y Artillery.
Casey, Maurice, Company M, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery.
Casey, William, Company M, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
Cashin, Patrick, United States Navy.
Clark, Jere S., Company E, Third United States Light Artillery ; Second Lieu-
tenant, Company L, First New- York Engineers; and Captain, Company G,
Second Regiment United States Colored Artillery.
Collins, Thomas, Company E, One Hundred and Eighty-Seventh Regiment
Pennsylvania Infantry Volunteers.
CoLNAN, Thomas, Company D, Forty-Eighth Regiment New-York Volunteers.
CoMELius, Alonzo G., Company E, One Hundred and Twentieth Regiment New-
York Infantry Volunteers.
CONNICK, Charles, United States Navy.
Coon, John W., United States Navy.
COPELAND, John, United States Navy.
Corcoran, Daniel, Company A, Ninety-Ninth New- York Militia.
COSKER, James, Company E, Seventy-Third Regiment New- York Infantry Vol-
unteers.
Coyne, Martin, Company I, Fortieth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers ;
United States Navy.
Craft, Moses A., Company F, Forty-Eighth Regiment New- York Infantry Vol-
unteers.
Crane, Stephen S., Company F, Eighth Regiment New- York Militia.
Crimins, John, Company H, One Hundred and Sixty-Fourth Regiment New-Y'ork
Infantry Volunteers.
Croput, David K., Company F, Sixth Regiment United States Volunteers; Com-
pany F, Fifth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers.
Cronen, Patrick, Company C, New- York Volimteers.
Cropsey, Stephen, Company H, Seventy-Fourth Regiment New-York Infantry
Volunteers.
152 YOyKKJiS IX THE UKBELUOX.
CcRRAN, Thomas, Company D and Company K, Thirty-Fifth Repiment New Jersey
Infantry Volunteers.
Curtis, John H.
Dagg, John L., United States Navy.
Darah, James, United States Navy.
Daub, Philip A., Company K and ("ompany C, One Hundred and Seventy-Fifth
Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers.
Dealing, Samuel F., Company G, First Rejfiment New- York Reavy Artillery.
Deitrich, Conrad, Company F, One Hundred and Seventeenth Regiment New-
York Infantry Volunteers; Company F, Forty-Eighth Regiment New-York
Infantry Volunteers.
De Revere, Williaji. Company K, One Hundred and Thirty-Third Regiment
New-York Infantry Volunteers.
Dickson, Andrew, Company K, Third Regiment New-York Artillery.
DiNSMORE, Luther, United States Navy.
Doolity, John J., Company B, Fifteenth Regiment New-York Militia.
Doyle, Timothy, Company E, Fifth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers.
Drehfahl, a. H., Company F, Fifty-Eighth Regiment New-York Infantry Volun-
teers.
Dreslit, David.
Dudley, Orville D.. Company A, Fifth Regiment New-York liif;iiitry Volunteers
Duffy, Patrick, Company 1, Twenty-Ninth Regiment New-York Infantry Volun-
teers.
DURAND, Frederick J., Company H, First Regiment New-York Veteran Cavab-y ;
Company C, Twenty-Seventh Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers.
Eaqan, John, Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
Edie, jAiiES K., Fourteenth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers.
Edwards, John, Company E, Seventieth Regiment New-York Infantry Volun-
teers.
ElMER, George, Coni|)any I. Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Arlillery.
Ellerbeck, Charles H., Company E, Fifth Regiment New-York Infantry Vol-
unteers.
Ellis, Matthew H., Cai)tnin, Company K, One llmuircd and S.-vmty-Fiftli Regi-
ment New-York Infantry Volunteers.
Ewino, Thomas, Colonel, Eleventh Regiment Kansas liilaniiy Vohinii-iis ; Briga-
dier-General and Brevet Major-Geneml United States Vnhinleers.
Eyck, Charles Lee, United States Navy.
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Feexlet, M.
Fegan, Peter, Company F, Ninetieth Regiment New-York Veteran Infantry
Volunteers.
Fink, John N., Company F, Ninth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers.
Fisher, William H., Company B, Fifteenth Regiment New- York Militia.
Flanagan, Patrick. Company G, Sixty-Ninth Regiment New- York Infantry Vol-
unteers.
FoRMAN, Gilbert, Company G, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavj' Artillery.
FORMAN, Henry, Company C, First Regiment United States Colored Cavalry.
Forsyth, John, Company F, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Ai-tiUery.
Foster, George H., Company G, Thirty-Ninth Regiment New-York Infantry
Volunteers.
Francis, Kellogg, Fifteenth Regiment New-York Militia.
Franklin, Benjamin.
Franklin, James, Company F, Fifth Regiment New- York Infantry Vohmteers.
Ferguson, Hugh H., Company F, Forty-Eighth Regiment New-York Infantiy
Volunteers.
Fuller, Frederick D.
Gorman, James P., Company C, Eighth Regiment Pennsylvania Cavalry.
Gordineee, William J., United States Navy.
GoRiVAN, John, Company C, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Ai-tillery.
GoTTLD, Abram C, United States Navy.
Grace, Michael, Company H, First Regiment New-York Mounted Rifles.
Gbacey, John, Company F, One Hundred and Fifteenth Regiment New-York
Infantry Volunteers ; Company C, Eighteenth Regiment New-York Infantry
Volunteers.
Graham, Edwin A., Company C, Ninety-Eighth Regiment New-York Infanti-y
Volunteers.
Gray, Stephen T., Company H, Fifty-Sixth Regiment New- York Infauti-y
Volunteers.
Grevert, John, Company I, Ninety-Fifth New-York Infantry Volunteers.
Grimshaw, Henry, Company G, Thirty-Sisth Regiment New-York Infantry
Volunteers.
GuGEL, Frederick, Company L, Second Regiment New Jersey Cavah-y.
Guilford, Nathan, Company D, Second Regiment Ohio Infantry Volunteers
One Hundred and Thirty-Seventh Regiment Ohio Militia.
GuiON, Heney p., United States Navj'.
154 YOXKEIiS IX THE REHELLIOX.
Haley, Thomas, Company K, One Hundrdil ami Fourth Regriment, New-York
Infantrj' Volunteers.
Hall, H. B., Captain, Company H, (Sixth Kefjimeut Kew-York Heavy Artillery.
Halsey, Williaji L., Company F, First Refj^iment New- York Entrineers.
Hajipson, Thomas, Company A, Sixth Rej^imcut New-York Heavy Artillery.
Hajipson, Thomas, Company A, Eighteenth Repiment New-York Cavalry.
Hargraves, Job, Company C, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
Harlane, Thomas, Company C, New- York Infantry Volunteers.
Harvey, John, Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
Harkls, Samuel, Company A, Twenty-Seventli Regiment New-York Infantry
Volunteers.
Habri.son, Thoma.s.
Hastings, John, Company 1), Twenty-Second Regiment New-York Infantry
Volunteers.
Hatfield, William M., Company F, First Regiment New- York Lincohi Cavalry.
Heath, ]^Iaecellus C.
Hedley, John, Company F, Ninth Regiment New-York Infantrj- Volunteers.
Heermance, William L., Company H, Ninth Regiment New- York State Militia;
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, Sixth Regiment New- York Cavalry.
HendricKSON, George R., Company M and Coiiipiuiy A. Sixth Regiment New-
York Hea%'y Artillery.
HiCKERSON, Henry C, Company A and Company K. Klcvenlh Regiment New
Jersey Infantry.
Hill, John Martin, Company L, Fourth Regiment N.w-York Heavy Artillery.
Hill.s, Slau George.
HiNMAN, Frank H., Company E, First Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry: Com-
pany D, Eighty-Fourth Regiment United States Volunteer Infantry ; Company
A, Fortieth Regiment New Jersey Volunteer Infantry.
Hitchcock, Daniel H., Company F, Twenty-Fifth Regiment New- York Cavalry.
Hitchcock, George A., Company F, Fifth Regiment New- York Infantry Vol-
unteers.
Hodges, George, Ninth Regiment New- York Militia.
HOPFM.^N, William H., Company A., First Regiment Connci-ticul Infantry
Volunteers.
Holder, Frank T., Coni|iany H. Third Regiment Massju-husetts Cavalry.
Holt, Henry, Company A, First Regiment New-York Cavalry.
Howe, Hamlin.
HiiWKi.i.. l>\vii>, Company B, Eighteenth Regiment New-York Cavalry.
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Howell, David M., United States Navy.
HowLETT, Frederick G., Company B, Eighth Regiment New- York Mihtia.
HoYT, Anson B., Chaplain, One Hundred and Seventy-Fourth Regiment New-
York Infantry Volunteers.
HiiDDY, William, Company K, Thirty-Sixth Regiment New-York Infantry
Volunteers.
Hume, Isaac, Company I, Two Hundred and Thirteenth Regiment Pennsylvania
Infantry Volimteers ; Company G, Ninety-Ninth Regiment Pennsylvania
Infantry Volunteers.
Irvin, Joseph E., Company A, First Regiment New- York Cavalry.
Jackson, Eugene A., United States Navy; Company A, Sixty-Second Regiment
New-York Infantry Volunteers.
Jackson, John W., Company D, Ambulance Corps.
Johnston, Stephen W., Company F, Ninth Regiment New- York Infantry
Volunteers.
Johnstone, Richard M., United States Navy.
Jones, Lewis G., United States Navy.
Jones, Samuel B., Colonel, Sixth Regiment United States Colored- Troops; Cap-
tain, Company C, Seventy-Eighth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers.
JOSLYN, Andrew J., Company A, One Hundred and Thirty-Ninth Regiment New-
York Infantry Volunteers.
Kane, Patrick, Company H. Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
Kazier, Otto, Company F, One Hunch-ed and Thirty-First Regiment New- York
Infantry Volunteers.
Kearns, James, Company I, Second Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
Keating, John, Company E, Fifty-Ninth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers.
Keeler, James, Company B, Fifteenth Regiment New-York Militia.
Kempton, Benjamin F., Company C, First Regiment United States Sharp- Shooters ;
Company D, Sixth Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps.
Kerns, John, Company B, One Hundred and Forty-Fifth Regunent New- York
Infantry Volunteers.
Kiely, Michael, United States Navy.
Kingsland, Henry, Company D, Fourteenth Regiment Rhode Island Heavy
Artillery.
Kinney, Edward, Company D, Eighty-Eighth Regiment New- York Infantry
Volunteers ; Bugler, Ninth Regiment United States Infantry.
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156 YOyKEHS IN THE BEBELLION.
KiPP, Augustus, Company I), Thirty-Secoud Rejriment New-York Infantry
Volunteers.
KiEicvvooD, AleXjVSDER O., Company A, Forty-Seventh Regiment Massachusetts
Infantrj' Volunteers.
Kr.\3IER, Louis, Company K, Forty-Fifth Rejriment New-York Infantry Volunteers.
Laoey, John, Company G, Forty-Seventh Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers.
Lake, Jeremiah J., One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Regiment New-York
Infantry Volunteers.
Lajieraue, Nathan, Company A, Fifty-Si.\th Regiment New-York Infantry
Volunteers.
Lapham, Solon, Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Hea%->- Artillery.
Lawrence, James V., Major, Volunteers on General Staff.
Lawrence, John H., Company E, Sixth Regiment New-York Hea\^- Artillerj- ;
Light Battery 31, First United States Artillerj-.
Lawton, James F., Company C, First Regiment New- York Engineers.
Lawton, James H., Company H, Thirty-First Regiment United States Colored
Troops.
Leliva, Carl von, Captain, Company C, Fifty-Eighth Regiment New-York Infantry
Volunteers.
Lester, Moses H., United St<ites Navy.
Lewis, Georoe, United States Navy.
Light, Charles, Ninth Ohio Independent Battery.
Lkhit, Robert B., Company D, One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Regiment New-
York Infantry Volunteers.
Lockavood, George W., Company A, First Regiment Provisional Pennsylvania
Mounted Volunteers.
Lord, Hiram F., Company B, Fourth Regiment Massachusetts Infantry Volimteers.
Lovett, James, United States Navy.
LoWENTHAL, SiGiSMUND, Company A, Sixth Regiment New- York Militia, and Com-
pany K, Eleventh New Jersey Infantry Volunteers.
LusK, George.
LUTKINS, Andrew R., Eighth Regiment New Jersey Infantry Volunteers.
Lvnt, Samuel H., Sergeant, Company B, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artil-
JIcCartiiv, Calvin.
McCAltTV, Fifty-Ninth Heginient Ncw-Yurk Infantry Voluntt
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McDonald, Andrew, Company H, Eighth Regiment New-York Militia.
McFall, John, Company A, One Hundred and Thirty-Ninth Regiment New- York
Infantry Volunteers.
McG-ANN, Philip, Company F, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery.
Mackey, Geeffen, Company I, Ninety-Fifth Regiment New-York Infantry Volun-
teers.
McLaw, James V.an, Company E, Sixteenth Regiment New-York Infantry Volun-
teers.
Maclay, Isaac W., Lieutenant, United States Army.
McLennan, George, Company A, Second Regiment New-York Infantry Volun-
teers.
McMahon, John, Company F, Sixth New-York Heavy Artillery.
McMela, Jacob.
McPherson, William H., United States Navy.
Manners, Samuel L., Company F and Company B, Eighth Regiment New Jersey
Infantry Volunteers.
Manning, Ezra L., Company H, One Hundred and Fourteenth Regiment New-
York Infantry Volunteers ; Company K, Fom-teenth Regiment Veteran Reserve
Corps.
Maroney, Edwabd B., United States Navy.
Maeean, Peter, Company E, Twelfth Regiment New- York Infantry Volimteers.
Maetin, William.
Maxwell, Richard, Company I, Thu-ty-Eighth Regiment New Jersey Infantry
Volunteers.
Maxwell, Robert, Company G.
Meadows, John G., Company B and Company C, First Regiment New-York In-
fantry Volunteers.
Menzee, Herman, Company I, First Regiment New-York Cavaky.
Messenger, Edwabd A.
Miller, Archibald Edgae, Company E, Eighth Regiment New- York Militia.
Miller, DA^ao J., Company K, One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Regiment New-
York Infantry Volunteers.
Millee, Joseph, Company E, Thirty-Seventh Regiment New Jersey Infantry Vol-
unteers.
Millward, James, Adjutant, Washington Clay Battalion ; Captain, Company E,
Ninety-Ninth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers.
Mitchell, Edward J., Company E, Thirty-Seventh Regiment New Jersey Infan-
try Volunteers.
158 YONKERS IN TllK KKUKUJOX.
Mitchell, George A., Company F, Fifth Regiment New-York Infantrj' Volun-
teers.
JIoxToojiERY, James, Company G, First Regiment New-York Mounted Rifles.
MonKis, Michael, Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Hea\-y Artillerj-.
Mosher, PniLrp, Company K, Sixteenth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers.
MuNN, Daniel S., Company G, Sixty-Sixth Regiment New-York Infantry Volun-
teers.
Murphy, Patrick, Company B, Eighteenth Regiment New-York Cavalrj-.
MiRPHY, Timothy, Company G, First Regiment United States Infantrj-.
Murray, David, Company D, Fifteenth Regiment New-York Cavalry.
Nash, Patrick, Company B, Fiftieth Regiment Massachusetts Infantry- Volun-
teers.
Nathan, Michael, Company G, SL\th Regiment New-York Militia.
Nealy, Benjamin, Company A, Thirteenth Regiment New Jersey Infautiy Volun-
teers.
Nebe, Charles, Company C, Seventy-Fourth Regiment New- York Infantry
Volunteei-s.
Nelson, Henry W., Company A, Thirty-First Regiment New-York Infantry
Volunteers.
Nessler, Henry. Company D, Fifty-Seventh Regiment New-York Infantrj- Vol-
unteers.
Nichols, Frederick 0., Company C, First Regiment Connecticut Hea^•y Artillery.
Nichols, Orlando, Company G, Tenth Regiment Connecticut Infantry Volunteers.
NicoLL, Augustus W., Company E, Seventh Regiment New-York Militia.
Oakley, Branson K.
O'Brien, James 0., Company K, Fifth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers;
Thirty-Fii-st Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers.
O'Brien, John, Company H., Sixty-Ninth Regiment New- York Infantrj' Volun-
teers.
Okell, Williaji, Quartermaster, Seventy-Fourth Regiment New- York Infantry
Volunteers.
Olh-er, Thomas, Company G, Thirty-Seventh Regiment New-York Infantry Vol-
unteers; Company C, Eighteenth Regiment New- York Cavalry.
Osterheld, HENTtY, First Lieutenant, Company K, Sixty-Eighth Regiment New-
York Infantry Volunteers.
Otis, Henry, Company K, Ninety-Fifth Regiment New-Vork Infantry Volunteers.
Otis, Thomas.
A BOLL OF HONOE. 159
Palmer, Abeam J., Company D, Forty- Eighth Regiment New- York Infantry Vol-
unteers.
Paitlding, Pieree L., Company E, One Hundred and Sixty-Eighth Regiment
New-York Infantry Vohmteers ; United States Navy.
Peake, Cyeus a., Company G, First Regiment New-York Engineers.
Peckham, Emeey a., Company B, Twenty-Seventh Regiment Massachusetts In-
fantry Volunteers.
Peene, John G., Company P, Fifth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers.
Peiece, Charles A., Company D, Twenty-Si.rth Connecticut Infantry Volunteers.
Pentreath, John, Corporal, Company D, Nineteenth Regiment New-York Mihtia ;
Quartermaster-Sergeant, One HuncU-ed and Sixty-Eighth Regiment New- York
Infantry Volunteers.
Peekins, James Ct.
Perkins, William, Company D, Seventy-Third Regiment New- York Infantry
Volunteers.
Persise, James, United States Navy.
Pettit, Samuel M., First Regiment Connecticut Heavy Artillery.
Phelan, John, New Jersey.
Porter, William A., Company C, Ninth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers.
Post, George C, Company F, Fifth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers.
Prescott, William H.
Prime, Ralph E., Companies G, C, and B, Fifth Regiment New- York Infantry ;
Lieutenant-Colonel, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery.
Proseus, Joseph L., Company B, Fifth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery;
Company H, Seventeenth Regiment New- York Militia.
QuiNCEY, Edward,
Randall, J. Wesley, United States Navy.
Redding, John T., Company H, Seventeenth Regiment New- York Militia ; United
States Navy.
Reipp, Jacob, Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
Reilly, James, Company K, One Hundred and Thirty-First Regiment New- York
Infantry Volunteers.
Rein, John H., Company D, Seventy-Eighth Regiment New-York Infantry Vol-
unteers.
Requa, Francis D., Company E, Fifth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers.
160 YOXKERS IN THE UEliKLUOX.
Reynolds, Seymour H., Company M and Company H, Sixth Rogiment New-
York Heavy Artillery.
Rhodes, Edward C, Company H, One Hundred and Fifty-Third Regiment New-
York Infantry Volunteers.
Rhodes, John W., United States Navy.
Riley, Wflllmi, Company G, Fifty-First Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers.
Robinson, Thomas, Company C, Twenty-Eighth Regiment New- York Infantry
Volunteers.
Roos, Albert, ('ompany K, Nineteenth Regiment Massachusetts Infantry Volun-
teers.
Roth, Conrad, Company E, One Hundred and Eighty-Third Regiment Ohio
Infantry Volunteers.
Ryan, Michael F., Company G. Sixty-Third Regiment New- York Infantry
Volunteers.
Ryer, Benjamin, Company I, Ninety-Third Regiment New- York Militia.
Ryer, Williaji C, Company E, New- York Volunteei-s.
Scheleerr, James S.
Shampnoy, Andrew, Company B, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
Shaw, Alexander, Company A, One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Regiment
Ne-w-York Infantry Volunteers.
Shelton, Stephen A., Massachusetts Cadets.
Sheridan, jAiiES, Company F, Fifth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers;
Company B, Second Regiment Connecticut Heavy Artillery.
Sherwood, Aaron, Company I, Tenth Regiment Connecticut Infantry Volunteers.
Shonnard, Frederic, Major, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillerj-.
Shultz, Charles, Company I, Second Regiment District of Columbia Infantry
Volunteers.
SlEBERT. Jacob, Company E, Twentieth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers.
SiEVERS, Albert, Company C, Twenty-Second Regiment New Jersey Infantry
Volunteei-s.
SiMiiONDS, Jeremiah, Company D, Fourth Regiment New- York Hea\-y Artillery.
Simmons, Edward, Company F, Fifth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers.
Simpson, Lvke, Company F, One Hundred and Ninety-Second Regiment New-
York Infantry Volunteers.
Skidgell, WiLLiAii, Company A, Eighteenth Regiment New-York Infantry
Volunteers; Company D, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery.
Skipper, Thomas, Company A. Third Regiment Maryland Cavalry.
A ROLL OF HONOR. 161
Smith, George, Company A, First Regiment New-York Cavalry.
Smith, Jacob, Company K, Thirty-Third Regiment Indiana Infantry Volunteers.
Smith, John G., Company C and Company A, First Regiment New-York Cav-
alry ; Company F, Fifty-Seventh Regiment New -York Infantry Volunteers.
Smith, Robert, Fifth Regiment New-York Militia.
Southwick, Benjamin W.
Starr, George H., Captain, Company D, and Brevet-Colonel, One Hundi-eJ and
Foui-th Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers.
Stevens, Samuel, Major, First Regiment New- York Cavalry.
Stewart, Arthur, Company B, Forty-First Regiment New- York Infantry Vol-
unteers.
Stewart, James, Jr., Captain, Company A, Fifth Regiment Connecticut Infanti-y
Volunteers.
Stockholm, Frederick G., Company A, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy
Ai'tillery.
Stone, Willl\m S., Company C, Seventy-First Regiment New- York Infantry
Volunteers.
Stouffer, George A., Company H, First Regiment Maryland Infantry Volun-
Straley, Jacob, Company A, Twenty-Eighth Regiment New Jersey Infantry ;
Company A, Fortieth Regiment New Jersey Infantry Volunteers.
Strobridge, George E., First Lieutenant, Company F, One Hundred and Thirty-
Fourth Regiment Illinois Volunteers.
Sullivan, John, Ninety-Sixth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers.
Sullivan, Michael T., Company I, Ninety-Sixth Regiment New-York Infantry
Volunteers.
Swan, William.
Sweeney, John W., Company A, Twenty-Seventh Regiment New- York Infantry
Volunteers.
Tallmadge, Robert P., Sixth Ohio Independent Battery.
Terrell, Timothy, Company E, Eighth Regiment Connecticut Infantry.
Thorpe, George N., Company C, Ninety-First Regiment New- York Infantry
Volunteers.
TiCE, James G., Company H, Ninety-Fifth Regiment New-York Infantry Volun-
teers.
Tidaback, John, Company D, Fifty-Second Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry Vol-
unteers.
162 YONKEHS 7.V THE ItEIiKI.LIOS.
Tompkins, Abraji H., Company K, Drum-Major, One Hundred and Sixty-Eighth
Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers.
TowNSESD, William J., Company H, One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Regi-
ment New-York Infantry Volunteers.
TrnxKR, Thomas, Company C, First Regiment New-York Mounted Rifles.
Tyrrkll, Elias, Company K, Fortieth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers.
UxGER, Adolph, Company D, Fifty-Ninth Regiment N«w-York Infantry Volun-
teers.
VA^•DEEBURGH, Bertrand, Company H, First Regiment Kentucky Infantry Vol-
unteers.
Van Ness, Theodore, Company K. Twenty-Sixth Regiment New .Jersey Infantry
Volunteers.
Van Tassell, Sherburne, C, United States Navy.
Van Wagner, George H., Company E, Ninety-First Regiment New- York Infan-
try Volunteers.
Veckek, \\.
Veitch. William II., United States Navy.
ViCKER, Daniel, Company F, New-York Volunteers.
VoiGHT, Henry, Company I, Fifth Regiment, United States Veteran Cavalry.
Wachter, Christian, Company A, Sixty-Sixth Regiment New-York Infantry
Volunteers.
Waldeck, William, Company D, Twentieth Regiment New- York Infantry Vol-
unteers.
Walsh, Robert, Company C, SLxth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
Walters, Frederick, Company I, Fifty-Ninth Regiment New-York Infantry
Volunteers.
W.VI.TERS, George W., Company I, Fifty-Ninth Regiment New-York Infantry
Volunteers.
Washington, George H., Company C, Eleventh Regiment United States Colored
Artillerj'.
Webb, Jajies, Company C, Seventy-Second Regiment New-York Infantry Volun-
teers.
Wellinghast, John.
Wellm^VN, W. Prescott, Seventh Regiment New-York Mjlitia.
Welsh, James, Company F, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy .Vriill.ry.
Wki.sii.Wili.iam, Caiitain.Coniimny D.Si.\ly-Kiglith Heginient New-York Infantry.
A ROLL OF HONOR. 163
Wheaton, Joseph C, Compauy A, Thirteenth Regiment New-York Mihtia.
Whitehead, John C, Company G, First Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers.
Whiting, Joseph, Company F, Second Regiment New- York Cavah-y.
Williams, Charles John, United States Navy.
Williams, Edwin H., Company A, One Hundred and Ninety-Second Regiment
New- York Infantry Vohinteers.
Willis, William.
WiLLOUGHBY, Charles, Company D, Fourth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
WmANS, David A., Company A, Fourth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery.
Wolf, William H., United States Navy.
Woodruff, Frederick H., Company B, Fifteenth Regiment New-York Militia.
Wyatt, David W., Company G, Thirty-Sixth Regiment New -York Infantry
Volunteers.
Yerks, William W., Company F, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery.
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ON THE SOUTH SIDE.
THE CAVALRY STATUE.
This desiij'ii was furnished by J. E. Kelly, of New-York. It is an impos-
ing figure. It repi-eseuts a dismounted cavalryman on the picket-line,
with carbine ready, dauntless resolution, and every sense alert, intent to
discover and repel the approach of an enemy. The martial bearing of
form and the heroic cast of features combine to render this statue very
impressive. Inscriptions :
(Under llie S
VALOR
PARAMOUNT OBJECT
IS TO
SAVE THE UNION.
(Oil tlie BasL-
LET US HAVE PEACE.
CHAPTER XII.
THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC.
KiTCHiNG Post — John C. Fremont Post — Men Who Bravely
Faced the Rebel Fire in Defence of the Union.
KITCHHSTG POST NO. 60.
IN tlie latter part of the year 1867, a number of the men who
had been in the United States service for the suppression of
the Rebellion between the years 1861 and 1865, learning that there
had been an organization formed for their benefit, called the
Grand Army of the Republic, made application to James B.
McKean, who was then Grand Commander of the State of New-
York, for a charter for a Post in Yonkers, and on the 7th day of
January, 1868, a charter was granted to E. Y. Morris, Sherburne C.
Van Tassell, James Stewart, Patrick Kelly, George W. Farnam,
Abram H. Tompkins, Edgar C. Nodine, James Carter, George Hen-
drickson, William Riley, and Daniel S. Munn, to organize a Post to
be known as Kitching Post No. 60.
On the 18th day of March following, the muster in took place,
and Edmund Y. Morris was elected the first Commander. Daniel
170 YOSKEHS IX Tilt: HEIiELLIOS.
S. Munu was elected Comniandei- on the 1st of January, 1870, when
there were fifty-five names on the muster-roll. In the year 1871
John Kuester was Comniandei-, and he also served as such for the
year 1872. The membership increased so, that in January, 1873,
when William Riley assumed command of the Post, the number of
names on the muster-roll was 179. He was also in command of the
Post during the year 1874, when four more names were added to
the muster-roll.
The Commanders since that year have been for 1875-76, James
Cadis; 1877, Oscar T. Barker; 1878-79, Henry Osterheld; 1880,
John C. Shotts; 1881, Frank A. Curran; 1882, James V. Lawrence,
to September 17, 1882, when he resigned; Sherburne C. Van Tas-
sell, to June 17, 1884, when he resigned ; Galusha B. Balch, from
June 17, 1884, to July, 1885, when he resigned ; James Sheridan,
from July, 1885, to January, 1H87; and from 1887 to and including
1891, John C. Shotts.
Officers, November, 1801 :
John C. Shotts, Commander.
Augustus Kipp, Senior Vice-Commander.
George Hexdrickson, Junior Vice-Commander.
Edward J. Mitchell, Adjutant.
James Sherid^vn, Officer of tbe Day.
Abram H. Tompkins, Quartermaster.
JjVMes Carter, Chaplain.
Edward Kenxey, Officer of the Guard.
Adolph Unoer, Serpeant-Major.
George Eimek, Qunrtermaster-Sergeant.
John C. Shotts, National Delegate.
AUOUSTU.S Kipp, Department Delegate.
Thomas Oliver, Alternate.
THE GEAND ARMY OF THE BEPUBLIC. 171
Acker, Jasper W., Company B, Sixth Eegiment New-York Heavy Artillery.
Allison, Robert, Company E, Twelfth Regiment New-York Militia ; Company
G, Thirty-Sixth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers ; Company D, Fif-
teenth Regiment New-York Engineers.
Andrews, Joseph, Company A, Seventeenth Regiment New-York Infantry Vol-
imteers.
Arbuckle, William, Musician, Seventeenth Regiment New-York Infantry Vol-
unteers.
Bailey, Augustus, Musician, Seventh Regiment Massachusetts Infantry Volun-
teers.
Baldwin, John, Company G, One Hundred and Second Regiment New-York
Infantry Volunteers.
Barker, Oscar T., United States Navj'.
Barnes, Jerome D., Company F, Sixteenth Regiment New-York Heavy ArtiUery.
Betts, George, United States Navy.
Blaitvelt, Willi.\m, Company D, Fifty-First Regiment New-York Volunteers.
Bloomer, William E., United States Navy.
Bowes, Benjamin, Company A, Seventeenth Regiment New- York Infantry Vol-
unteers.
Brady, Jeremiah, Company B, Twelfth Regiment Massachusetts Light Artillery.
Brazier, James, Company B, One Hundred and Fifty-Fifth Regiment New- York
Infantry Volunteers.
Brill, Jacob G., Company E, Second Regiment New Jersey Infantry Volunteers.
Brown, Calvin C, Company B, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery.
Brown, John W., Company B, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery.
Brown, Samuel F., Company F, Second Regiment New- York Cavalry.
Butler, John, Company B, Twelfth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers ;
Company D, Fifth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers.
Carey, John, Company E, Sixty-Ninth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers.
Caeroll, William, Company C, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
Carter, James W., Company C, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery ;
United States Navy.
Casey, Daniel, Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy ArtiUery.
Cashin, Patrick, United States Navy.
172 YOXKEKS ly THE RKliELLIOX.
Clark, Jere S., Company E, Third Regiment United States Light ArtiUerj-;
Fourth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers; Company G, Second Regi-
ment United States Artillery.
Coon, John W., United States Navy.
Crofct, David K., Company F, Fifth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers ;
Company F, Sixth Regiment United States Volunteers.
CuRRAN, Thomas, Company D and Company K, Thirty-Fifth Regiment New
Jersey Infantry Volunteers.
Dickson. Andrew, Company K, Third Regiment New-York Artillery.
DooLiry, John J., Company B, Fifteenth Regiment New- York Militia.
Drehfahl, a. H., Company F, Fifty-Eighth Regiment New- York Infantry Volun-
teers.
Dudley, Orville D., Company .\, Fiftli Regiment New- York Infantry Volun-
teers.
Durand, Frederick J., Company H, First Regiment New- York Veteran Cavalry ;
Company C, Twenty- Seventh Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers.
Edie, JyUiiES, Fourteenth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers.
Ek'KHORN, Charles F., Company H, Fifty-Seventh Regiment New- York Infantry
Volunteei-s.
Eimer, George, Company I, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
Ferguson, Hugh H., Company F, Forty-Eighth Regiment New-York Infantry
Volunteers.
Field, John P., Company C, Fourth Regiment Vermont Infantry Volunteers.
Fink, John N., Company F, Ninth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers.
FiNNEOAN, James, Company F, First Regiment New-York Mounted Rifles.
Fisher, William H., Company B, Fifteenth Regiment New- York Militia.
Forman, Gilbert, Company G, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
FoRMAN, Henry, Company C, First Regiment United States Colored Cavalr>-.
GoRAViN, John, Company C, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery.
GORDINEER, William J., United States Navy.
Graham, Edward, Company C,Ninety-Eightli Heginieiii Ni-w-Vork Infantry Vol-
unteers.
Grevert, John, Company I, Ninety-Fifth Regiuuut New-York Infantry Volun-
teers.
GUGEL, Frederick, Company L, Second Regiment New Jei-scy Cavalry.
THE GRANB ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC. 173
Halsey, William L., Company F, First Regiment New-York Engineers.
Hampson, Thomas, Company A, Eighteenth Regiment New-York Cavah^'.
Hargraves, Job, Company C, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery.
Haevey, John, Company F, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery.
Hastings, John, Company A, Twenty-Sixth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers.
Hauptmann, Charles H., Company A, United States Engineers.
Hendrickson, George, Company M and Company A, Sixth Regiment New- York
Heavy Ai-tiUery.
Henry, George S., Company A, Seventy-Tlm-d Regiment New-York Infantry
Volunteers.
Hickerson, Henry C, Company A and Company K, Eleventh Regiment New
Jersey Volunteers.
Hitchcock, Daniel H., Company F, Twenty-Fifth Regiment New-York Cavah-y.
Howell, David, Company B, Eighteenth Regiment New-York Cavalry.
HowLETT, Frederick G., Company B, Eighth Regiment New-York Militia.
Irvin, Joseph, Company A, Fu-st Regiment New-York Cavalry.
Jones, Alfred M., Company B, Seventy-Eighth Regiment United States Colored
Infantry.
Jones, Samuel B., Company C, Seventy-Eighth Regiment New- York Volunteers ;
Brigadier-General United States Volunteers.
JosLYN, Andrew J., Company A. One Hundred and Thirty -Ninth Regiment New-
York Volunteers.
Kaufman, Norman, Company D, Seventh Regiment Maryland Infantry Volunteers.
Kearns, James, Company I, Second Regiment New-York Artillery.
Keeler, James, Company B, Fifteenth Regiment New- York Militia.
Kenney, Edward, Company D, Ninth Regiment United States Infantry; Com-
pany M, Eighty-Eighth Regiment New-York Veteran Infantry Volunteers.
Kiely, Michael, United States Navy.
KiPP, Augustus, Company D, Thii-ty-Second Regiment New- York Infantry Vol-
unteers.
Lacey, John, Company G, Forty-Seventh Regiment New-York Volunteers.
Lameraue, Nathan, Company A, Fifty-Sixth Regiment New-York Vohmteers.
Lange, John, Company I, Fourth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery.
Lapham, Solon, Company F, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery.
Lawton, James F., Company C, First Regiment New-York Engineers.
Light, Charles, Ninth Ohio Independent Battery.
174 YONKERfi IX THE REBELLWS.
Light, Robert B., Company I), One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Reg-iiuent New-
York Volunteers.
LocKWOOD, George W., Company A, First Regiment Pennsylvania Provisional
Mounted Volunteers.
LowENTHAL, SiGlSMUND, Companies A and K, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy
Artillery.
Lynt, Samuel H., Company B, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery.
McCall, Thomas, Company A, Seventeenth Regiment New-York Infantry Volun-
teers.
Mackey, Geiffen, Company I, Ninety-Fifth Regiment New- York Volunteers.
McLave, James, Company C, Fifth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery.
Manners' Samuel L., Company F, Eighth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers;
Company B, Eighth Regiment New Jersey Veteran Volunteers.
Marran, Peter, Company E, Twelfth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers.
Mexzer, Hermax, Company I. First Regiment New- York Cavalry.
Miller, David J., Company K, One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Regiment New-
York Infantry Volunteers.
Miller, Joseph, Company E, Thirty-Seventh Regiment New Jersey Volunteers.
Millward, James, Adjutant, Washington Clay Battalion ; Captain, Comijany E.
Ninety-Ninth Regiment New-York Infantry Volimteers.
Mitchell, Edward J.. Company E. Thirty-Seventh Regiment New Jersey Infantry
Volunteers.
Mitchell, George A., Company F, Fifth Regiment New-York Volunteers.
Montgomery, James, Company G, First Regiment New-York Mounted Rifles.
MuNN, Daniel S., Company G, Sixty-Sixth Regiment New- York Infantry Volun-
teers.
Murden, Jacob L., Company C, Seventh Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
Murphy, Cornelius, Company A, Seventeenth Regiment New-York Volunteers.
Murphy, Timothy, Company G, First Regiment United States Infantry.
Nebe, Charles B., Company C, Seventy-Fourth Regiment New-York Volunteers.
Nessler, Henry, Company D, Fifty-Seventh Regiment New-York Infantry Vol-
unteers.
NiOHOLLS, Frederick O., Company C, First Regiment Conneeticut Heavy Artillery.
Oliver, Thomas, Company C, Eighteenth Regiment New- York Cavalry; Company
G, Thirty-Seventh Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers.
O.STERHELD, Henry, First Lieutenant, Company K, Sixty- Eighth Regiment .^Jew-
York Infantrv Volunteei-s.
THE GBAND ABMY OF THE REPUBLIC. 175
Paulding, Pierre F., Company E, One Hundred and Sixty-Eiglitii Regiment
New- York Volunteers; United States Navy.
Peake, CTRtrs A., Company G, First Regiment New- York Engineers.
Penteeath, John, Corporal, Company D, Nineteenth Regiment New-York Militia ;
Quartermaster-Sergeant, One Hundred and Sixty-Eighth Regiment New- York
Infantry Volunteers.
Post, George C, f'ompany F, Fifth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers.
Redding, John T., Company H, Seventeenth Regiment New- York MUitia ; United
States Navy.
Reitf, Jacob, Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
Rein, John H., Company D, Seventy-Eighth Regiment New- York Volunteers.
Reynolds, Seymour H., Company M and Company H, Sixth Regiment New- York
Heavy Artillery.
Roth, Conrad, Company E, One Hundred and Eighty-Third Regiment Ohio In-
fantry Volunteers.
Ryan, Michael F., Company G, Sixty-Third Regiment New- York Infantry Volun-
teers.
Shaw, William, Musician, Seventeenth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers.
Sheridan, James, Company F, Fifth Regiment New- York Volunteers ; Company
B, Second Regiment Connecticut Heavy Artillery.
Sherman, James W., Company D, Fom-teenth Regiment New Jersey Infantry Vol-
unteers.
Shotts, John C, Company A, Seventeenth Regiment New- York Volunteers.
Sievees, Albert, Company C, Twenty-Second Regiment New Jersey Infantry
Volunteers.
Skidgell, William, Company A, Eighteenth Regiment New- York Volunteers ;
Company D, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery.
Smith, George, Company A, First Regiment New- York Cavalry.
-Smith, John G., Company C and Company A, First Regiment New- York Cavalry ;
Company F, Fifty-Seventh Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers.
Smith, William R., Company I, Fifth Regiment Maryland Infantry Volunteers.
Starr, George H., Captain, Company D, and Brevet-Colonel, One Hundi-ed and
Fourth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers.
Stevens, Samuel, Major, First Regiment New- York Cavab-y.
Stewart, Arthur, Company B, Forty-First Regiment New-York Infantry Vol-
unteers.
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176 • ITAVA'iVt'.S' jy THE KEBELLION.
Still, John, Company I, Ninety-Fifth Kegrinient New-York Infantry Volunteers.
SuLLn'AN, Michael T., Company I, Ninety-Sixth Regiment New- York Infantry
Volunteers.
Tallmadge, Robert P., Sixth Ohio Independent Batterj*.
TiCE, James G., Company H, Ninety-Fifth Regiment New-York Infantrj* Volun-
teers.
TlDABACK, John, Company D, Fifty-Second Regiment Pennsylvania Infantn- Vol-
unteers.
Tompkins, Abram H., Drum-Major, One Hundred and Sixty- Eighth Kepment
New- York Infantry Vohmteers.
Unger, Adolph, Company D, Fifty-Ninth Regiment New- York Infantry Volun-
teers.
Veitch, William H., United States Navy.
VoiGHT, Heney, Company I, Fifth Regiment United States Veteran Cavalry.
Washington, George H., Company C, Eleventh Regiment United States Colored
Artillery.
Comrades who hare died xixee the uryamzution of the I'ost.
Bowler, Elijah, Company L, First Regiment New-York Veteran Engineers.
Brazier, James, Company I, One Hundi-ed and Fifty-Ninth Regiment New-York
Volunteers.
Cain, Joseph, Company F, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery.
Carlton, Ch^vrles F., Company D, Fourth Regiment Vermont Volunteers.
Cunningham, John J., Company A, First Regiment California Volunteers.
Curran, Frank, Company E, Second Regiment New Jersey Volunteers.
Dillon, Thomas F., Sixty-Ninth Regiment New- York Volunteers.
DoNOHDE, Bernard, Company A, Tenth Regiment New- York Volunteers.
Dubois, William H., Fifth Regiment United States Cavalry.
Dykes, William, Company H, First Regiment New-York Mounted Rifles.
Everkst, James B., Company D, Fifty-First Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers.
Fenner, John R., Company D, Fifth Regiment New-York Infantry.
Fenton, John, Company E, Seventy-Ninth Regiment New- York Volunteers.
Ferguson, Hexrv B.. Cumpany C, Sixth Regiincnt New-York Heavy Artillery.
THE GRAND ABMY OF THE BEPUBLIC. 177
FiSHEE, Charles R., Company B, Fifteenth Regiment New-Yoi-k State National
Guard.
Foley, John, Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
Fype, John, One Hundi-ed and Seventy-Eighth Regiment New- York Volunteers.
GriLLEO, Jacob, Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
Glosqtte, Joseph, Company G, Forty-First Regiment New- York Volunteers.
Hendeick, a. a.. Company H, Eighty-Sixth Regiment New- York Volunteers.
Hill, Thomas, Company A, Seventeenth Regiment New- York Volunteers.
Humbert, Joseph, Company B, Seventy-Fourth Regiment New- York Volunteers.
Humphries, George, Company C, Sixty-First Regiment New-York Volunteers.
Jenkins, Edward W., Captain, Ninety-Ninth Regiment New- York Volunteers;
Thirty-Second Regiment United States Colored Infantry.
Kernan, Edward, Company B, Sixty-Seventh Regiment New-York Volunteers ;
Company A, Sixty-Fifth Regiment New-York Volunteers.
Koch, Bernhard, Company D, Fifty-Second Regiment New- York Volunteers.
Matthews, John H, Company F, Twelfth Regiment New- York State Militia.
MOEEIS, Edmund Y., Major, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
O'Donnell, Patrick, Company G, Second Regiment New-York Artillery.
Parse, Hollis H., Company G, Thirty-Second Regiment New-York Volunteers.
Pease, Charles H., Company F, Fifty-Eighth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteei-s.
Reynolds, Thomas, Company B, Sixty-Fifth Regiment New- York Volunteers.
Smith, John, Company G, Fifty-Seventh Regiment New- York Volunteers.
Springer, Louis, Company H, Twenty-Second Regiment Connecticut Volunteers.
Starr, Edwaed, Company H, Fifty-Eighth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers.
Taylor, James W., Company I, Thirteenth Regiment New- York State National
Guard; Company E, Fourteenth Regiment New-York Volunteers.
Taylor, Henry H., Company H, One Hundred and Sixth Regiment New- York
Volunteers.
VOCKENROTH, WiLLIAM.
Wallace, John, Company D, Twenty-Third Regiment United States Infantry.
Wandell, Eveeet H., Seventeenth Regiment New- York Volunteers.
WOOLHISEE, Caleb T., Company B, Fourth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
178 YONKERS IX THE HEBELLION.
JOHN C. FREMONT POST NO. '.90.
On the 19th day of May, 1886, a number of honorably discharged
soldiers of the United States Army, who had sei"ved in the late
war for the suppression of the Rebellion against the Union, met
in the City of Yonkers, and took steps looking to the formation
of a Post of the Grand Army of the Republic. After several pre-
liminary meetings the new Post started on its career June 29, as
the Horatio Seymour Post No. 590, Department of New-York, with
the following named comrades as officers :
Frederic Suonnakd, Commander.
Fisher A. Baker, Senior Vice-Commander.
Edward Maxwell, Junior Vice-Commander.
Galusha B. Balch, Surgeon.
Joux Forsyth. Cliaplain.
Matthew H. Ellis, Quartermaster.
James V. Lawrence, Officer of the Day.
George W. Farnaji, Officer of the Guard.
James B. Farrell. Adjutant.
Augustus W. Nicoll, Serpeant-Major.
Thomas Ewixci. Quartei-mastor-Serpeant.
CJaluslia B. Balch succeeded Coniiiiandor Shonnanl, .January 'J.'),
1S77, and has remained since that .late in tlie same luisitioii.
.At a regnlar encanipinent li.M ,,n .Inly 24, ISiM). the name ..f tlie
Post was changed to John C. Fremont ; the change being ratified
by General Order No. 9, September 25, 1890, from Department
Ileaihinarters.
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Bakee, Fisher A., Lieutenant-Colonel, Eighteenth Regiment Massachusetts Infan-
try Volunteers.
Balch, Galusha B., Assistant Surgeon, Ninety- Eighth Eegiment New- York In-
fantry Volunteers; Second Regiment Veteran Cavalry New- York Volunteers.
Baldwin, William Henry, Captain, Company L, First Regiment New- York
Eng^ineers.
Belknap, William H., Company A, Thirty- Eighth Regiment New- York Militia.
Betts, Charles D., Company H, One Hundred and Thirty-Second Regiment New-
York Infantry Volunteers.
Biedsall, Thomas, Company A, One Hundred and Twenty-Seventh Regiment
New- York Infantry Volunteers.
Borland, George, Company K, Fourth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers ;
Captain, Company C, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery.
Brower, John F., Company H, First Regiment Shai-p-Shooters.
Brown, William H., Company B, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
Bynon, John Willet, Company E, First Regiment New-York Engineers.
Casey, Daniel, Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
Church, Benjamin S., Captain, Twelfth Regiment New-York Engineers.
CoNLiN, John, Company K, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy ArtUlery.
Crane, Stephen S., Company F, Eighth Regiment New-York Militia.
Ellis, Matt. H., Captain, Company K, One Hundred and Seventy-Fifth Eegiment
New-York Infantry Volunteers.
EwiNG, Thomas, Colonel, Eleventh Regiment Kansas Infantry Volunteers ; Briga-
dier-General and Brevet Major-General, United States Volunteers.
Faenam, Geoege W., Company G, Twenty-Thii-d Regiment Connecticut Infantry
Volunteers.
Fareell, James F., Captain, Company H, Fifth Regiment New- York Artillery.
Foesyth, John, Company F, Sixth Regiment New -York Heavy Artillery.
Feisbie, George H., Company H, Seventeenth Regiment New- York Militia.
Hatfield, William M., Company F, First Regiment New- York Lincoln Cavalry.
Holt, Henry, Company A, First Regiment New- York Cavalry.
Hudson, Abeam A., Company B and Company E, Ninety-Fifth Regiment New-
York Infantry Volunteers.
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Ives, Hugh M., Company B, Sixth Regiment Connecticut Infantry Volunteers.
King, George W., Captain, Company G, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
KiRKWOOD, Alexander 0., Company A, Forty-Seventh Regiment Jlassiic-husetts
Infantry Volunteers.
Kempton, Benjamin F., Company C, First Regiment United States Sharp-Shooters;
Company D, Sixth Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps.
Lawrence, James V., Major, Volunteers on General Staff.
Lawrence, John H., Company E and Company B, Sixth Regiment New-York
Heavy Artillerj'.
Lelr'a, Carl von, Captain, Company C, Fifty-Eighth Regiment New-York Infan-
try Volunteers.
Lester, MoSes H., United States Nav>-.
Manning, Ezra L., Company H, One Hundred and Fourteenth Regiment New-
York Infantry Volunteers ; Company K, Fourteenth Regiment Veteran Reserve
Corps.
NicoLL, Augustus W., Company E, Seventh Regiment New-York Militia.
Odell, James B., Company H, Seventeenth Regiment New-York Militia ; Com-
pany H, Thirteenth Regiment New-York Militia.
Odell, John H., Company C. Fifth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers.
O'M^u^EY, Joseph, Company K. Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery.
Radcliff, AbRjUI S., Company H, Seventeenth Regiment New-York ^lilitia.
Randall, J. Wesley, United States Navy.
Shonnard, Frederic, Major, Sixth Regiment New-York Hea\'j' Artillery.
SiMMONDS, WiLLiAii, Company B, Fifteenth Regiment New- York Militia.
Simpson, Luke, Company F, One Hundred and Ninety-Second Regiment New-
York Infanti-y Volunteers.
Slocum, William E., Company C, Thirty-Seventli Regiment Massachusetts In-
fantiy Volunteers.
Snyder, Hiram J., Company 1), Fiftieth Regiiiiont Pi'niisylvani:i Infantry Vdlun-
teers.
Stewart, .James, Secomi iiiiuti'iunit, ('<>iii]iaM.v II. Tliiriceutli Regiment New-
York Militia.
Stkwaf.t. Jamks, Jh., r.ii.taiii. ( '..iniiaiiv A, Fifth Itcgiinciit ('Dnnecti.Mit Infantry.
Tiiaveh, Stkphkn H.. ('(inii>aiiy II, Seventeenth Regiment New-York Militia.
THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC. 18]
Van Ness, Theodore, Company K, Twenty-Sixth Regiment New Jersey Infantry.
Walsh, Robert, Company C, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery.
Welsh, Willlaji, Captain, Sixty-Eighth Regiment New-York Infantry.
WiNANS, David A., Company A, Fourth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.
WORDEN, Amos W., Company E, Seventeenth Regiment Connecticut Infantry
Volunteers.
Comrades who have died since the organization of the Post.
BucHAN.tN, James, Company C, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery.
Blackett, Wellluvi C, Company H, One Hundred and Second Regiment New-
York Volunteers.
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CHAPTER XIII.
THE SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' MONUMENT ASSOCIATION.
Its History and Its Work — The Fourth Separate Company
Fair — Depew Night.
IN the course of an address at Music Hall, Yonkers, on the even-
ing of May 30, 1888, William Allen Butler, Esq., who presided
at the Memorial Service, suggested that "a suitable memorial be
provided to honor the citizens of Yonkers who placed their lives at
the service of the Republic, when its existence was imperiled by
armed Rebellion."
Cyrus Cleveland, acting upon the suggestion thrown out by the
Chairman, at once moved that a committee be appointed by the
Chair, which committee should have power to solicit subscriptions,
and with the money so subscribed "erect a monument that should
appropriately express the gratitude of our people for the important
service rendered to the Nation."
It was truly remarked at the time, by Mr. Butler, that " all the
principal towns in our county have honored the patriotic bravery
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184 yoxkehs in the uebellion.
that preserved the Union by the erection of monuments, and that
while Yonkers sent its full quota to the war, up to this date the
heroism of its soldiers has been unnoticed."
On the 12th day of June following, Mr. Butler appointed, "pur-
suant to the resolution of the meeting held on the evening of Memo-
rial Day," a committee of twenty-five citizens, "to be known as the
Yonkers Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument Committee," as follows:
Cyrus Cleveland, J. Harvey Bell, Galusha B. Balch, Ethelbert Bel-
knap, J. Irving Bui-ns, Thomas C. Cornell, Joseph F. Daly, William
B. Edgar, Rudolf Eickemeyer, Matt. H. Ellis, Theodore Oilman,
Charles E, Gorton, William L. Heermance, E. Alexander Houston,
John Olmsted, Charles R. Otis, Walter H. Paddock, S. Francis
Quick, Frederic Shonnard, John C. Shotts, James Stewart, War-
ren B. Smith, Stephen H. Thayer, Edward Underhill, and Charles
E. Waring.
In his letter of iii>i>i>iiitiiiciit .Mr. I'.iitlci' wroti': "I havt- endea-
vored to name citizens wlio, by their dllieial rel;iti<>iis and their
identification with public ti-usts, and with important business en-
terprises, will fitly and fully rejiresent the leading interests and
industries of the city, and whose active cooperation will insure
the accomplishment of the object of their ajipointment — the erec-
tion of a suitable monument in memory of the Union soldiers and
sailors." In concluding, ^Ir. Butler expressed " the hope that this
movement may enmnieiid itself to the generous sympathy of our
citizens, and result in the ereetion of a worthy memorial of those
brave defenders of the Union whom it is our special duty to honor."
The first meeting of tlie Yonkeks Soldiers' .\xd Saii.oi;s' Mom-
MENT Association was held at Manor Hall, Wednesilay evening,
June -Jd, ISHH. Cyrus Ch'velan.l was eleeted President ; ("liarl.'s E.
THE SOLBIEBS' AND 8AIL0BS' MONUMENT ASSOCIATION. 185
Gorton and John C. Shotts were elected Vice-Presidents ; Charles
R. Otis was elected Treasurer, and E. Alexander Houston Secre-
tary, of the Association. On motion of Mr. Shotts, the name of
William Allen Butler was added to the Association. On motion
of Colonel Heermance, the names of John W. Oliver and J. Gr. P.
Holden were also added.
A Finance Committee, consisting of Messrs. Heermance, Shotts,
Gilman, Cornell, and Shonnard, was appointed by the President.
Subsequently, a Memorial Committee and a Committee on Site
were appointed.
On January 3, 1889, on motion of Colonel Ellis, a resolution was
adopted providing " that a shaft or column, to cost not less than
$5,000, be erected in some public place in the city." February 4,
the Monument Fund amounted to $98. At a meeting held April 1,
1889, Mr. Cleveland's resignation as President of the Association
was accepted, and Mr. Gorton was elected President, John C.
Shotts First Vice-President, and Dr. G. B. Balch Second Vice-
President.
On the 6th day of July, 1889, the Committee on Site reported
that the Common Council had consented that the Monument
should be placed on the Manor Hall Grounds. The fund had
reached $432.13.
At a meeting held November 18, 1889, after a report of the Me-
morial Committee, a design submitted by George H. Mitchell, of
Chicago, was accepted by the Association.
Many meetings followed, and various methods were proposed to
raise money and progress the work ; some members of the Associ-
ation resigned, and new members were elected; but little was
definitely accomplished up to March 3, 1890. At a meeting on that
186 YONKEUS IN THE liEBELLION.
evening, on motion of Mr. Oliver, a resolution was adopted provid-
ing for the appointment of a "Committee of Ways and Means, con-
sisting of three, of wliich Colonel ITcci-niaiifc shall lie Chairman, to
appeal for funds and to manage tlie finanees of the Association."
Vice-President Shotts, who presided at the meeting, appointed
Colonel William L. Heermance, John W. Oliver, and William F.
MoUer as such committee.
From this time forward the work of the Association advanced
more satisfactorily. The Ways and Means Committee was consti-
tuted an Executive Committee, with iiHTcasid )io\vcrs. By request
of Colonel Heermance, and on his motion, Mr. Oliver was made
Chairman ; and at Mr. Oliver's request, Charles E. Gorton, J. Ir\ing
Burns, and Joseph F. Daly were added to the Executive Com-
mittee. Subscriptions to the fund, $5,488.71.
On July 11, 1890, Charles Henry Butler proposed that if addi-
tional subscriptions to the Monument Fund, amounting in the aggre-
gate to ;};l,(i(l(), wciv ]. lodged by July 22, 1890, at twelve o'clock,
he would (loiiatf tin' proceeds of the lot on the northeast corner
of Van Cortlandt Park Avcnni' and Lawrence Street, to be sold at
auction at the New-York Real Estate Exchange, at that time.
The proposition was accepted. The lot was sold for $1,050, and
was the means of securing $1,509.50 additional — making a total
of $2,559.50 for the Monument Fimd through Mr. Butler's offer.
Among the contributors was Mi's. Helen Veile Tatum, who gave
$324.38 to complete the $1,000, in the names of her thr.-e little girls
— Alice, Kuth, and Georgie Perkins.
At a meeting of the Associalioii held .hily IM. ISIM), .Mr. Oliver
presented the insci-iptiuns as they appear upon the Monunieiit,
with a single exeeption, ami after earefnl consideration they wi're
THE SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' MONUMENT ASSOCIATION. 187
unanimously adopted. For the inscription on the base of the
south side of the Monument the words originally recommended
and adopted were, "Peace Eestored." To gratify what seemed to
be a general and laudable desire to have some words from General
Grant upon the Monument, his famous words, "Let Us Have
Peace," were substituted.
At the meeting of July 21, 1890, Thomas Astley Atkins was
appointed Historian of the Association. The contributions had
reached $8,018.21.
On Thursday evening, September 25, 1890, the Executive Com-
mittee met at the residence of John W. Oliver, Chairman, No. 192
Warburton Avenue, with a view to put the Monument under con-
tract. There were present Colonel William L. Heermance, William
F. Moller, Charles E. Gorton, J. Irving Burns, Joseph F. Daly, and
John W. Oliver, being all the members of the Executive Committee;
Hon. Norton P. Otis, T. Astley Atkins, John C. Shotts, and Frederic
Shonnard were present by invitation. George H. Mitchell, of Chi-
cago, whose plan for the Monument had been accepted, was also
present by previous an-angement.
After full explanations from Mr. Mitchell, and free discussion in
which all present participated, the design was formally approved.
The following contract was agreed upon, and executed the next day
in the office of Joseph F. Daly, Warburton Building :
This agreement, made this 26th day of September, 1890, between George H.
Mitchell, of the City of Chicago, Cook County, and State of Illinois, of the first part,
and the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument Association of the City of Yonkers, County
of Westchester, and State of New-York, of the second part, witnesseth :
That the said party of the first part, in consideration of the covenants on the part
of the party of the second part hereinafter contained, doth covenant and agi-ee to
and with the said party of the second part, that he will provide and pay for all the
188 YOXKEIiS IN THE REIiELLIOX.
materials, and do the work necessarj' for the construction and erection and com-
pletion of a Monument in the City of Yonkers, New- York, according to the speci-
fications and drawings liereto attached and marked A, which form a part of this
agreement. And that he will erect the said ^Monument in full accordance with
the said specifications and drawings, for the sum of ten thousand five hundred
dollars ($10,500) ; which amount shall include the entire cost of the said Monu-
ment, including the statuary, and its erection in the place designed by the com-
mittee in charge of said Monument, according to the plans and specifications.
And the party of the second part, in consideration of the accurate, faithful and
prompt fulfilment of all the covenants of the said party of the first part, doth cove-
nant and agree with the said party of the first part to pay to him or his legal
representatives the said sum of ten thousand five hundred dollars, in the following
manner, and at the following times :
First, The sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars ($750) when the Infantry and
Cavalry models are ready to be cast in bronze, and are accepted by the committee
of the said Association having the erection of the said Jlonumeut in charge.
Second, The sum of seven huncb-ed and fifty dollars ($750) when the Naval and
Artillery models are ready to be cast in bronze, and, with the model of the Standard-
Bearer, are accepted by said committee.
'lliird, The sum of twenty-five hundred dollars (.$2,500) when the four bronze
figures are accepted by the said committee.
Fourth, The sum of thirty-five hundred dollars ($3,500) when the material of the
Monument is quairied, and all the workmanship and lettei-ing perfoi-med, and the
Monument is ready for erection, and accepted by said committee.
Fifth, The sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000) when the Monument and statu-
ary are delivered and ready for erection in the City of Yonkers, at such place as the
said committee shall direct, and in a manner satisfactory to the said committee.
Sixth, The balance, two thousand dollars (.$2,000), when the said Monument and
all its parts shall have been completed and erected in its place, according to said
specifications and plans.
It is further agreed, by and between the parties hereto, that all material to be
furnished, and all work to be performed, shall be furnished and done in such a man-
ner as shall be satisfactorj- to the committee having the erection of sjiid Monimient
in charge, and that no payments shall be made or become due until the sjiid work,
in its various parts, is accepted as satisfactory by the said committee.
It is further agreed, liy and between the parties hereto, that whenever any por-
tion or part of .said Monument is aecei)t(d and i)aid for by the i)arty of the second
part, then the part or portion of said Monument shall become the absolute property
THE SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' MONUMENT ASSOCIATION. 189
of the said party of the secoud part, and the party of the first part shall, as the said
part or parts are accepted and paid for, insure in some reliable Insurance Company,
the part or parts so accepted and paid for, and the policy of insurance shall be in
the name of, and the loss if any payable to, the party of the second part.
It is further agreed, that if, for any reason, the said party of the first part should
refuse or neglect to furnish the proper materials, or perfoi-m the work in the man-
ner required by the drawings and specifications, then, in that case, the party of the
second part may do the said work, and finish the same, in the manner provided by
the drawings and specifications, at the cost of the said party of the first part ; and
if out of the contract price, after paying for finishing the said contract, a balance
be left, the said balance shall be paid to the said party of the first part, and if the
cost of finishing the said work exceed the said contract price, then the said party
of the first part shall pay to the said party of the second part the amount of the
said increased cost.
It is further agreed, that the said party of the first part shall, on the making of
the payments hereinbefore specified, deliver to the said party of the second part the
part or parts of the Monument paid for and accepted, in such places as the com-
mittee in charge of said Monument shall dii-ect, and that the same, when so
delivered, shall be free and clear from any claim or hens.
It is further agreed, by and between the parties hereto, that the Monument shall
be completed and erected in the proper place in the City of Yonkers, in fuU accor-
dance with the drawings and specifications, on or before the 35th day of May, 1891.
It is further agreed, by and between the parties hereto, that at any time before
January 1, 1892, the said party of the first part will, upon request of the party of
the second part, furnish the material, and erect around said Monument, an inclo-
sure, according to the plans and specifications submitted, for the sum of twelve
hundred and fifty dollars ($1,250), to be paid when the said inclosure is erected and
completed, according to said plans and specifications, around the said Monument in
the City of Yonkers.
In witness whereof, the parties hereto have set their hands and seals, the 26th
day of September, 1890. Signed,
George H. Mitchell.
For the Association : J. W. Oliver,
W. L. Heermance,
Joseph F. Daly,
Charles E. Gorton,
MajoriUj of Committee.
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County of Westchester, »
City of Yokkers. }
On this 26th day of September, 1890, before me personally came George H.
Mitchell, to me known to be the individual described in the foregoing instrument
as party of the first part, and wlio executed the same, and who acknowledged that
he executed the same.
W.M. RiLKY,
yotdlii J'lihlic.
SPECIFICATIONS.
Far a Soldiers'' Monument to be erected in Yonkers, New-York, by the .Soldiers' Monu-
ment Committee, designed by George H. Mitchell, 24 Adams Street, Chicago, Illinois.
Granite. — To be of the very best quality of selected dark blue Barre granite, of
an even color, free from shakes, seams, and all other defects.
Workmanship of the Monument must be such as to hold the full sizes required by
the design and specifications ; no patchwork will be accepted ; all beds, builds, and
joints to be cut fidl, true, and square ; top and bottom faces of all stones dres.sed to
parallel level and perfectly even surfaces ; all exposed surfaces must be wrought and
dressed to perfect planes, without elevations or depressions, and to be fine (10 cut)
bush-hammered work, with all edges sharp, in perfect line, and without flaw ; all
bevels must be true, and end precisely at vertical line of stone above, as shown in
plans. All horizontal edges and niolduigs to be perfectly level, at right angles to
each other, and at whatever horizontal plane they may be measured, the sides shall
be equidistant fi-om the vertical axis ; and the Monument must be perpendicular
when erected. Xo stone will be accepted that is inaccurately cut, dressed, or set.
The Monument throughout must be uniform in color, and the contractor must
include every and all expense for first-class material and workmanship, until its
erection upon site in Yonkers, New- York, on or before May 15, 1801.
Generai, DniENSIONS.— Nine feet sciuarc at base; total height, forty-.-;ix feet from
foundation to top of standard.
liUWKK Base. — Nine feet square, one foot ten inches high.
Seooni) Base.— Seven feet nine inches square, one foot five inches high.
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Third Base.— Seven feet square, oue foot four inches high.
The sides of these three bases to be finished with a fine dressed margin-line, with
quarry faces, projection or wash on each to be finely (
Fourth Base.— Six feet four inches square, one foot five inches high, to be highly
polished for lettering on four sides, lettei-s raised in sunken panel.
Die Plinth. — Five feet seven inches square, one foot high, foiu- sides highly
polished.
Die.— Five feet seven inches square, thi-ee feet six inches high ; to be cut in one
piece, each pilaster to be fluted, and front faces to be highly polished, also the four
sides of the recess on die.
Cap. — Six feet eight inches square, one foot high, molded on four sides, and
hammered dressed, except the four plain sides, which wiU be polished.
Pediment Cap. — Six feet six inches square, two feet two inches high ; on each
of the fom- sides cut molded pediments to receive statues. On each of the four
sides appropriate lettering to be nicely and artistically executed ; raised polished
letters.
Shaft Plinth. — Thi-ee feet one inch square, two feet four inches high ; to be
molded on four sides and finely hammered dressed.
Spire or Shajt. — To measure two feet nine inches square at base, two feet
three inches square at top, sixteen feet three inches high ; in one stone. All ex-
posed surfaces to be highly poUshed.
Capital. — To measure three feet square at base, two feet nine inches high ; to
be elaborately carved on four sides.
Statuary.— To consist of five pieces, representing the Infantry Soldier, Sailor,
Artillery, Cavalry, and the Standard-Bearer on top ; each and all to be from entirely
new and original designs. The four lower statues to be seven feet high, executed
from best standard bronze, specimens of the bronze to be submitted to and approved
by the committee. And the upper statue or Standard-Bearer to measure eight
feet to the head, and eleven feet to top of standard, to be executed in fine statuary
granite. All modeling to be first approved by the committee, either by inspecting
the model itself or by photographs representing the different sides, to be provided
by the contractor.
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Lettering. — All letterinfr to be cut in the polislied surface in plain, sharp, well-
defined letters.
Foundation.— The plans and specifications for the foundation of the Monument
will be furnished by the contractor, and the materials and work will be supplied by
the Association.
George H. Mitchell.
The above contract did not include the drawinjrs for the bronze statues.
On Monday evening, Octoljev (5, 1890, the gallant Fourth Separate
Company National Guard of the State of New-York, Captain John
I. Pruyn, opened a fair in their fine Armory on Waverley Street,
which continued for eight evenings. It was conducted with excel-
lent spirit and judgnioiit, proved a center of social attraction for
the time being, and put the generous sum of $1,652.66 into the
Monument Fund, carrying the total up to $10,342.72.
On Monday evening, December 8, 1890, a brilliant audience as-
sembled in Music Hall, to hear Hon. Chauncey M. Depew deliver an
oration on "The Men who Saved the Union." Major-General O. O.
Howard, United States Army, presided. Miss Louise Cowles sang
"The Star-Spangled Banner," with a chonis of fifty voices, and full
band aeeonipanimont. Julius Jordan sang " Fair Land of Fri'c-
doni," with full choru.s and band accompaniment, the words and
music composed by himself. This not only i)rovided a tlelightful
entertainment, but put $500 into the Monument Fund, bringing it
np to $11,026.86.
On DcccmlH'r 28, tin- Association iiiiiininionsly voted that, when
the Monuineiit and iiiclosure were coiii|ileteil and jiaid for. tin,'
proiK'rty should lie presented to the City of Yonkers, providing
tliat tile city shall consent to assume tlieir proper care in per-
jietuity.
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At a meeting of the Association held April 10, 1891, Charles E.
Gorton was requested to visit the quarry at Barre, Vermont, where
the granite- work for the Monument was being prepared, and report
on the progress and character of such work. This mission was per-
formed to the complete satisfaction of the Association — Mr. Gorton
reporting that the stone and the workmanship were excellent.
At this meeting it was determined to appoint a Dedication Com-
mittee, and Colonel William L. Heermanee, J. Irving Burns, John
C. Shotts, Judge Matt. H. EUis, and James V. Lawrence were ap-
pointed by the President as such committee. The contributions
had reached $11,061.62.
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THE TOP STONE.
STATUE OF THE COLOR-BEARER.
This noble figure measures ciglit feet to the top of the caji, and
eleven feet to the top of the eolor. It veiy appropriately surmounts
the Monument.
It was sculptured from flue statuary-gTanite at Ryegate, W-ruiout. The
Color-Bearer stands with cannon and balls at his feet, and is in the act of
drawing his sword to defend the flag. The position is natural, the expres-
sion strong.
The patriotic women of Yonkers furuished the money to pay for this
statue, and mostly by dollar subscriptious.
CHAPTER XIV.
ERECTION OF THE MONUMENT.
Arrival of the Bronze Statues and Gtranite-Work — Their
Approval — Laying of the Corner-Stone — The Erection.
ON Juue 1, 1891, the four bronze statues for the Monument
arrived in Yonkers from Chicago, where they were cast ; and
they were stored in the basement of the First Methodist Episcopal
Church.
On June 2, the granite statue of the Color-Bearer reached Yon-
kers, on the Hudson River Railroad, from Ryegate, Vermont, where
it was executed. Two of the Executive Committee spoke for an
ordinary truck to remove it to Manor Hall Grounds, but when they
discovered that it was billed at four tons they changed their plan.
On Thursday evening, Juue 4, a meeting of the Association was
held in the basement of the Church to view the statues. By invi-
tation, Alfred Jones, James R. Brevoort, Arthur Parton, and Cap-
tain W. H. Brownson, U. S. N., were also present. After the most
careful and critical examination there was but one opinion, and
that was one of entire and emphatic approval.
200 Y(LXKKI{S IX rilE KKliKLLIoy.
At this meeting the resignation of Charles R. Otis as Treasurer
was accepted, and John W. Oliver, who for some time had been
acting as Treasurer, was elected to fill the vacancy.
LAYING OF THE CORNER-STONE.
The cornei'-stone of the Monument was laid with simple though
impressive ceremonies on Manor Hall Grounds, on Saturday after-
noon, June 27, 1891, at five o'clock.
The members of the Monument Association assembled in the
office of the Board of Water Commissioners to make the final
arrangements for the ceremony. Thomas McVicar produced the
copper box he had made for the corner-stone. The several articles
provided were deposited in the box, and it was hermetically sealed
with a soldering-iron in the presence of the Association.
Kitching Post No. 60, Grand Army of the Republic, Vice-Com-
mander Augustus Kipp in command ; John C. Fremont Post No
590, Grand Army of the Republic, Commander Galusha B. Balch
in command; and the Fourth Separate Company, National Guard
of the State of New- York, Captain John I. Pruyn in command,
formed a hollow square about tlie foundation. A vast concourse
of people filled the grounds and streets, while all the windows
fronting on the grounds were occupied by interested auditors. The
Star-Spanglod Banner proudly waved from the flagstaffs of Afanor
Hall and several of the surroundin.ir l.uiMiii'^s ; iiiid the wliolr pre-
sented an inspiriting and imjiosing scene.
PrtH'isoly at five o'clock, the Monument Association, tollowed Ky
M.ivor Millward find tlic Coininou Council, several of our resi-
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deut clergy, City Judge Thayer, School Commissioner Eudolf
Eickemeyer, Water Commissioner John C. Shotts, William Allen
Butler, and other representative citizens, marched into the hollow
square.
Colonel William L. Heermance, Chairman of the Committee on
Dedication, directed the services. Rev. Dr. Alvah S. Hobart, pastor
of the Warburton Avenue Baptist Church, opened the proceedings
with an appropriate prayer. Music by Harvey's Band followed.
John W. Oliver announced the contents of the box as follows :
The Declaration of Independence; Constitutions of the United
States and of the State of New-York ; Political Register, containing
the names of those at the head of the National and State Govern-
ments; New- York World Almanac for 1891; New- York Tribune
Almanac for 1891 ; American Coins of 1891 ; Charter of Yonkers ;
Annual Reports of the City Officers ; Rosters of Soldiers who left
Yonkers to fight for the Union, of the two Grand Army Posts, of
the Fourth Separate Company, and of the Yonkers Veteran Na-
tional Guard; Names of the Monument Association; Minutes of
the Association and of the Dedication Committee; Contract for
the Monument ; List of Contributors to the Monument Fund ; Dr.
Cole's Bicentennial Address ; Programme of Depew Night ; New-
York City and Yonkers papers ; Programmes of Memorial Services,
1888, 1889, 1890 and 1891 ; Engraving of Manor Hall; Annual Mes-
sage of Mayor Millward; Grand Army Button; Loyal Legion
Button ; List of Yonkers Chm-ches and Pastors ; Sanitary Code of
Yonkers ; Last Printed Report of the Board of Education ; Rules
and Regulations of the Gi'and Army ; Engraving of James Stewart,
upon which was recorded the fact that as master-mason he superin-
tended the laying of the corner-stone ; and Postal Card containing
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the call of the mectiiif^ of the Monument Association to lay the
corner-stoue.
President Go) toil's Afhiress.
Mr. Gorton was theTi introduced, and said :
The ceremonies of to-day are brief and simple, Ijecause fittinj::
services will soon be held on the occasion of the dedication of the
Monument ; and it seems unnecessary to hold two elaborate cele-
brations so close together for substantially the same purpose.
It has, however, just been suggested that it would be proper for
me to say a few words at this time when we are near the consuni-
mation of our efforts, when we are able to mark the time within
which will be completed a memorial worthy of our city, and, more
to the purpose, worthy to commemorate the bravery and loyalty of
the heroes who fought to save the Union.
The last of the material necessary to complete the work was ex-
pressed from Vermont, on five cars, on the 24th of this month, and
ought to be here within two or three days. Unless very improbable
delays and difficulties arise, the Monument will be finished within
the next twenty days, and will be dedicated the latter part of July.
A long time has elapsed since this Monument was begun, but it could
not be pushed more rapidly, and we confidently ht)i)e that wlien
you see the completed work you will be convinced that we have
well and faithfully discharged the duties imposed upon us.
Although \\ir Civil War riidcd long ago, there was never a time
more appropiiatf than llif present to rear testimonials to the sol-
diers and sailors who fought to preserve the Union, when nioiiu-
jnents are being roareil to lionor tliose wlio were (•(inspieuous for
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trying to destroy it. A section of the country is calling for school
and other histories that shall write down a wicked Eebellion as a
struggle for liberty, and that shall elevate its leaders on the pedes-
tals of heroes.
Time does not change facts. The war was an infamous Rebel-
lion, seeking to destroy the best of governments, and its leaders
were traitors and rebels. I do not believe that sectional animosi-
ties, should be kept alive ; neither do I believe in the effort to per-
petuate the memories of those who were conspicuous only for their
efforts to dismember the Nation. Patriotism will not suffer the
names of the men who fought for the South to be written above
those who fought that the Union might live.
This Monument we are about to erect will, we trust, be more than
a history. It will commemorate the valor of the defenders of their
land. It wiU also inspire with patriotism those who are to come
after us. Long hence it will look down on men with hearts as loyal
and arms as strong as they who went forth to battle from '61 to '65,
and who, if need be, will dare as much for their country.
May the Monument that is to rise on this foundation ovei'look,
for all time, a loyal, united, peaceful people ; and now, in the name
of the Monument Association, by its authority, and in its behalf, I
lay this corner-stone, the first stone of the Memorial which is to be
dedicated to the Soldiers and Sailors of Yonkers who fought to
save the Union.
Rev. A. A. Lings, pastor of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church,
pronounced the benediction, three volleys were fired by the Fourth
Separate Company, and the corner-stone was declared formally
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204 TOXKEItS IN THE liEBELLIOK.
laid. At intervals during the ceremony National tunes wei-e flayed
by Hai-vey's Band.
THE ERECTION.
It is proper to state here that the granite-work for the Monument
arrived in Yonkers on tive cars on June 30, but, owing to un-
avoidable delays, the erection did not begin by (leorge H. Mitchell
and the workmen employed by him until July 16, after which there
was no delay. As block was placed upon block, the beauties of the
design, the stone, and the workmanship became apparent. Expec-
tations were high, but they were more than realized as the work pro-
gressed. On Tuesday, July 21, at twelve o'clock, the Color-Bearer
was placed in position. On July 23 the Monument was completed
to the entire satisfaction of the Association and the people, and
Mr. Mitchell was paid in full on his contract.
It is worthj' of note, that in the accomplishment of this work
no accident occurred. When it is stated that the stones handled
weighed from two to fourteen tons each, the skill of Mr. Mitchell
and of A. Thompson and his sons of Woodlawn, who assisted him
will be readily understood. "I have erected a groat many monu-
ments," said Mr. Thompson, "but I never erected one where the
stones were so large, and yet so uniformly good." The Executive
Committee were so well pleased with the manner in which Mr.
Mitchell completed his contract, that they united in the following
just tribute:
To Whom It May Concern :
As members of the Executive Committee of the Yoiiktrs Soldiers' niul Sailors'
Monument Association, we wisli, iiersonally and eoUeetively, to rommeud the
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integrrity of character, courteous deportment, and artistic taste of George H.
Mitchell.
He placed his services at oui- disposal for a consideration far below their actual
value. He has given us more than his plans promised, and a work of greater ex-
cellence than we had any reason to expect. His artistic designs, the consummate
skill he has shown in their development, and his affable bearing, have greatly
assisted us in the erection of a Monument that stands as an eloquent tribute to
heroic men who faced the enemies of the Union, and is a permanent adornment
to our city, surpassing the expectation of critics and eliciting the admiration of
beholders.
Yonkers, September 17, 1891.
J. W. Oliver,
Chables E. Gorton,
William L. Heermance,
J. Irving Burns,
Joseph F. Daly.
As it was in the heat of midsummer, and owing to the absence of
several members of the Association and other citizens whose pres-
ence was desired, the time of dedication was deferred to Thursday-
afternoon, September 17, at half-past three o'clock.
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THK MU.M-.MENT ASK KNCLHSIRE.
CHAPTER XV.
THE DEDICATION.
Geeat Concoukse of People — The Decoeations — The Peoces-
siON — The Music — The Oration — The Original Poems — The
Unveiling — The Dedicatory Address— The Naval Salute
— Imposing Seevices and Histoeic Day.
THURSDAY, September 17, 1891, will long be remembered with
pleasure by the citizens of Yonkers, for upon that day the
Monument was dedicated. The glories of early autumn marked
the festal day. The skies were flecked with fleecy clouds, through
which the glorious sunlight streamed upon the city ; the air bore
the delightful flavor of Indian summer. It was an ideal day for
the grand event — a day which suited exactly the members of the
Monument Association and thousands of others anxious for favor-
able weather. The Committee on Dedication had requested Hon.
Benjamin F. Tracy, Secretary of the Navy, to send a National
vessel to fire the salute. He promptly and graciously complied,
and the great war-ship Boston lay at anchor off the city. The citi-
zens of Yonkers showed their patriotism by displaying flags and
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drapery from their stores, factories, ami residences; they came out
in gi-eat numbers to witness the dedication exercises; and, although
those in the streets about Manor Hall Grounds were densely
crowded together, they preserved their good nature, and good
order was the result.
While no efforts were made to mark the occasion by an elaborate
parade, the Grand Army Posts, and the Separate Companies of the
National Guard of New- York State, which were invited by the
Yonkers Posts and the Fourth Company, combined with the en-
tertaining organizations, presented a fine body of men, and gave
the lovers of a procession something that deserved and received
their admiration.
At the Monument the exercises went off with astonishing facility,
and not a fault occurred in any of the details. So prompt and so
businesslike were the proceedings, that hardly an hour and a half
of time was consumed. The presiding officer, the orator of the
day, the reciters of tlie poems, the clergymen, and all who partici-
pated in any way in the exercises of the afternoon, proved by their
performance to have been well worthy of selection.
In view of the very large concourse of people, estimated as high
as 20,000, and the character and intricacy of the programme, it
was a matter of general congratulation that everything worked so
smoothly, and that there was not a mistake from beginning to end.
In every waj' the occasion was a great one.
IIIK I'KOCKSSIOX.
At Imlf-past two o'clock tlic jirocession formed on (ictty Sijuai
1.1 South iJioaihviiv, un.liT the command of (iran.l Marslial .loh
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Peutreath, of Kitching Post, with the following Aides : Thomas
Oliver, of the Fourth Separate Company ; Colonel E. J. Mitchell,
and William H. Fisher, of Kitching Post ; Charles Von Leliva, of
John C. Fremont Post ; G. W. Bard, Dr. E. F. Brush, Oliver Dyer,
William Archer, John Dawson, Colonel Alfred Cooley, Milton Rath-
burn, D. W. Whitemore, and Colonel Henry Huss.
FIRST DIVISION.
Platoon of Police, under command of Sergeant McLaugliKn.
Grand Marshal and Aides.
Harvey's Yonkers Baud.
Marines and Sailors from the United States steamship Boston, with two batteries
of Gatling guns. Lieutenant Swinburne commanding.
Kitching Post No. 60, of Yonkers. Senior Vice-Commander Augustus Kipp
in command.
Farnswortli Post No. 170, of Mount Vernon, mth Sons of Veterans. Frank M.
Clark commanding.
Tarrytown Citizens' Band.
Ward B. Burnett Post No. 496, of Tarrytown, with Sons of Veterans. Harry J.
Parnell, Commander.
Cromwell Post No. 466, of White Plains. Edward B. Long commanding.
Charles Lawrence Post No. 378, of Port Chester. Charles Fox commanding.
Flandreau Post No. 509, of New RocheUe. James Ferguson, Commander.
Doane Post No. 499, of Brooklyn. David W. Lee, Commander.
Delegation from the Fourth Veteran Cavalry.
Colored Guards, and others.
SECOND DIVISION.
Officers of John C. Fremont Post No. 590, of Yonkers.
Haverstraw Band.
Edward Pye Post No. 179, of Haverstraw. General Ira M. Hedges, Commander.
MorreU Post No. 144, of Sing Sing. Sumner A. Smith, Commander.
McKeel Post No. 120, of Katonah. Edward Hitt, Commander.
Peekskill Drum Corps.
Abram Vosburgh Post No. 95, of Peekskill. George L. Hughson, Commander.
Fraternity of the Survivors of the Sixth Heavy Artillery.
John C. Fremont Post No. 590, of Yonkers. Galusha B. Balch, Commander.
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THIKD DIVISION.
Twenty-Fii-st Kejjimcnt Band.
Nineteenth Separate Company, National Guard of the Stat« of New- York, of
Poughkeepsie. Captain WiUiam Haubennestel In command.
David's Island Band.
Eleventh Separate Company, of Mount Vernon. Captain E. J. Kiudler
commanding.
Murray's Brass Band, of Yonkers.
Fourth Stparate Company, of Yonkers. Captain John I. Pruyn loninianding.
The procession started at half-past two o'clock, aud marched
through New Main Street to South Bi'oadway, thence northward to
Nortli Broadway, to Quincy Place, to Warburton Avenue, and to
Manor Hall Grounds, where the Veterans and Guardsmen took the
seats provided for them.
It was an admirable procession of about one thousand men. The
streets were crowded with people to see it go by, aud the paraders
encountered a continuous salute of cheers along the whole route of
the march. Good order was preserved throughout, and every man
in the long line conducted himself nobly.
DEDICATION.
Exercises on Manor JIall (honiuJs.
The formal dedicatory exercises were begun promptly at lialf-
past three o'clock, on Manor Hall Grounds. For hours beforehand
people were on hand to secure good positions for seeing and hear-
ing, and a very animated scene was presented. The grand stand
against Warl)urton Building was occu]tied by fully one thousand
j„.,,pl,._ the West Point Band iiiid tlic chorus ..f alioiit t\v<. Iiuii-
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dred singers occupying the middle portion. At the extreme front,
in the center, was the speakers' platform.
In front of the grand stand were benches occupied by the Grand
Army Veterans, the National Gruardsmen, and the sailors from the
ship Boston. A space around the Monument was kept clear, for
convenience at unveiling.
There was a dense mass of people around the outskirts of the
grounds, on the sidewalks, and in the adjoining streets. All avail-
able windows, porches, balconies, and housetops in the vicinity were
occupied. At the west of the grand stand several immense Ameri-
can flags were hung, partly protecting the occupants from the warm
rays of the sun in the western heavens. About the speakers' plat-
form a few large and handsome plants, well placed, contributed
their beauty and grace to the occasion.
Concert hy The West Point Band.
Before President Gorton opened the exercises, the West Point
Military Academy Band gave a concert. Theii" playing was of a
high order, and their instruments were superb. The harmonies
were rich, the tones lovely; and the great audience listened with
pleasure. The leader was Charles E. Moscow. Programme of the
concert :
1. Overture — " Dichter und Bauer " Suppe
2. Selection from " Attila " Verdi
3. Waltz — " Wiener Boa-Bons " Strauss
4. " Traumereien " Schumann
5. Galop — " Alanen " Hertel
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214 YOyKERS IX THE UEBELLIOS.
The Opeuiuf/ Address .
After the concert the great audience was called to order, when
President CTorton delivered the following opening address:
More than thirty years have passed since the great Q,\\\\ War be-
gan and the first call for troops was issued. During the early years
of the war our respected fellow-citizen, John T. Waring, was Presi-
dejit of the village of Yonkers, and aided and encouraged by his
patriotic zeal, the in-oniiiieiit men of the town and village came
forward to give their support in favor of the Union.
At a hastily assembled town-meeting, seventy-five men volun-
teered to go to the war — the first Yonkers Companj^ commanded
by Captain Charles H. Smith. Through the four succeeding years
the village respomled nolily with men and means to carry on
the war.
We have assembled to-day to dedicate this Monument to the men
of Yonkers who, dui-ing that storjny period, fought to save the
riiion. This ^Monumciit is enipliatii-ally the people's tribute to loy-
alty. The individual subscriptions for it have ranged from $l,Or)0 to
three cents, and through entertainments given in its aid thousands
have contributed to the success of this enter j>rise.
We have collected and expended over $11,000. We shall soon
pulilisli an illustrated History of Yonkers in the Civil War, ami
there are other things necessary to finish our work. We need
$2,000 for the.se purpo.ses, and trust your generosity to pr<)viile a
fitting t'lid for wliat has lieeii so well begun.
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Wlien the applause that ensued at the close of the address had
died away, President Gorton proceeded to announce the various
features of the progi-amme.
The Opening Prayer.
After a suitable overture by the Band, Rev. Alexander B. Carver,
Rector of St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church, offered the fol-
lowing prayer :
O God who art the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings
and Lord of lords, the Almighty Ruler of Nations, we adore and
magnify thy glorious name for the great things which thou hast
done for us. We render thee thanks for the goodly heritage which
thou hast given us, for the civil and religious privileges which we
enjoy, and for the multiplied manifestations of thy favor toward
us. Grant that we may show forth our thankfulness for these thy
blessings by living in reverence to thy Almighty dominion and
power, by reliance upon thy mercy and goodness, and by obedience
to thy righteous laws.
Preserve, we beseech thee, O Lord, the blessings of peace to this
country, restore them to nations deprived of them, and secure them
to all the people of the earth. May the kingdom of the Prince of
Peace come, and, reigning in the hearts and lives of men, unite
them ill holy fellowship, so that theii* only strife may be, who shall
show forth with greatest zeal the praises of him who hath loved
them, and made them kings and priests unto God.
We implore thy blessing upon all in legislative, judicial, and ex-
ecutive authority, that they may have grace, wisdom, and under-
standing, so to discharge their duties as most etfectually to promote
216 YONKEUS ly THE liEJIKLLlOX.
thy glory, the interests of true religion and virtue, the safety, honor,
and welfare of this State and Nation.
We thank thee that thou didst inspire the hearts, that thou didst
direct the wills, of the brave men whose heroic deaths we commem-
orate to-day. Thou art our gi-eat defense in every righteous cause.
Let thy fatherly care be ever with the soldier and the sailor who
offer themselves a willing sacrifice for their country's good. And
(\i> tliou (lirc<-t lis ill our generation in all our ddings with tliy most
gracious I'avor, and further us with thy continual help, that in all
our works liegun, continued, and ended in thee we may gloiify thy
holy name, and finally by thy mercy obtain everlasting life. We
ask this in the name of him who, when we pray, taught us to say :
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom
come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this
day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive
those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but
deliver us from e\al, for thine is the kingdom and the jiower and
the glory for ever and ever. Amen.
A chorus of two hundred voices, under tlic direction of Robert
G. Jackson, sang " Hail, Columbia," witli liand accomjianiment, and
a fine volume of tone was produced. Among the singers were the
most talented amateur vocalists in the city.
J'hi' OidliiDt.
lion. Oiiaihio i;. i'ottcr, tlic orator of the day, was llu'ii intro-
leed. and spoke as follows:
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3Ir. President and Members of the Yonkers Soldiers'' and Sailors^
MonHment Association :
Ladies and Gentlemen — It is most fitting that this dedication
should occur on the anniversary of the battle of Antietam, the first
great battle in which the Confederate Army of invasion was de-
feated and driven back, and by which it was made certain that, at
whatever sacrifice of life and treasure, the American Union must
and would be preserved.
This Monument commemorates the sacrifices of freemen, citizens
of Yonkers, who put life and property at hazard in support of our
Union and Government in a most important and decisive ci'isis in
our country's history.
The importance of the service is to be estimated, like all human
action, by results effected, and in view of difficulties under which
rendered. Let us, in the brief time allowed by the duties of this
hour, endeavor to estimate justly this service.
A minority — less than one third — of the States of the Union
proposed to break up and destroy our Government at their own
will, and without regard to the rights of the majority of the States
and their people.
Our Union was formed by the deliberate action and determina-
tion of the people of all the original States, after experiences under
the Confederacy, which was but a voluntary association and coop-
eration of the States, without central authority acting directly
upon the citizen, to which direct allegiance and obedience were due.
The Constitution provided for the indefinite and continued exist-
ence of the National Union through unbroken and endless succes-
218 YOyKKIiS IX THE UEliELUON.
sion of legislative, executive, and other oflBcers, all whom it placed
under most solemn oath to preserve, protect, and defend this Con-
stitution. It gave to this Government aU the means by an army
and navy, and power to support these by taxation, and all other
means requisite for maintaining, perfoi-miug, and exacting as one
of the nations of the earth all National obligations and duties, the
regulation of foreign commerce and of commerce between the
States, and all power to maintain peace and levy war with all the
resources of the country.
This Constitution contained no provision looking ti) its termina-
tion, or to the dissolution or termination of the Union. No seed of
moi-tality was pennitted within it.
After due acceptance and ratification by the several States, the
National Government, thus complete, entered upon, and for more
than seventy years exercised, its great powers and functions,
acting directly upon aU the citizens of the Republic, demanding
and receiving from them loyalty and obedience, and in return
securing to each and every State and its people a republican form
of government, exemption from disturbance, either from otlur
States or from the outside world, exercising all the powers of na-
tionality among the nations of the earth, and securing to the people
of every State peace and self-government at home, and considera-
tion and respect throughout the world. No nation ever performed
for its people its great duties of protection and security more bene-
ficially than these were performed by this Nation from the adop-
tion of the Constitution until attonptcii secfssion.
Our Ifrritory, oiii;iuiilly liinitc<l by tlie Mississippi on the West,
:iii(l by the tliiity-liist ii.ir.ill.l n.-rth latitude «m the South, had
been exteniied uiidiTllie Nalioiiiil I'uioii till our eoast-lineuiM.ii the
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Atlantic and the Gulf reached southward to the Eio Grande, and
our National domain included and embraced the body of this North
American continent between the thirty-second and forty-ninth par-
allels on the Pacific, and the twenty-sixth and forty-fifth parallels
on the Atlantic — more than three times the area of the country
at the adoption of the Constitution.
Twenty-one new States within this National domain had been
added to the Union, each with all the powers, rights, and duties of
the original States, and each organized, created, and advanced to
Statehood under and by the Union itself, upon the security of
permanent protection in self-government as provided in the Na-
tional Constitution and organized in the whole structure of the
Government.
Our population had increased during the Union from about
4,000,000 to 32,000,000; and our commerce had advanced to the
first rank among the nations.
It cannot be denied that the people of these States had enjoyed
a growth, prosperity, happiness, and security in self-government,
from the adoption of the Constitution to the attempted secession,
without a parallel among nations during the same period.
A patriot statesman of one of the seceding States, than whom no
brighter star has shone in the galaxy of great men she has con-
tributed to the country, the late Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia,
declared before the Legislature of his State and before the country,
on the eve of secession, and in hope of preventing it, — that the
condition of the people of that State within the Union was fitly
symbolized by the happiness and security of the first parents of
our race in the garden of Eden. Nor did this declaration estrange
the affections or confidence of his State. She intrusted to him,
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more than to any otluT, lioi- guidance through the darkness of
secession, and he guided her footsteps and those of her wayward
sisters in their first return to light, life, aiid lilit-rty in a iireservcd,
restoi'ed, indissoluble Union.
But notwithstanding the Union of tliese States was organized as
a perpetual and indissoluble Government; and notwithstanding
the obligation to continue the exercise of its gi-eat powers of pro-
tection and security in self-government for the people of all the
States had increased with eveiy extension of its ten-itory, and been
renewed with the admission of each new State to the Union, until
the people of thirty-four instead of thirteen commonwealths de-
pended for security in tlicir power of self-government upon the
faithful performance and exercise of the obligations assumed by
the Union toward the people of every State, in return for their
submission and direct allegiance, created and made jierpetual in
becoming members of the Union; and notwithstanding the un-
equaled security and liapidnrss of the people of the States under
the Union; — there lia<l been put forward by subtle statesmen in
the Southern States the deadly tlnory, fatal if acquiesced in to the
continuous life of the Union, that each State could at any time it
might elect withdraw or secede from the Union in the exercise of
its inherent rights as a State.
This theory was .sustained by sulitle arguments by cniiniMit stat*'s-
mcn, and pfi'sistmlly taught tlin.ii.<,di tin' Smith foi- niorr tlian a
generation, it had gained general, though not universal, accept-
ance in that part of tiii' I'nion. Tlie general jirosjierity, progress,
and hajtpiiiess enjoyetl by the people of ail the States within the
Union had, however, offered no opportunity or temptation to the
section in wliieh it was entei-taine(l to aet upon tliis llieory.
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At the adoptiou of the Constitution, and for many years after, it
cannot be doubted that it was the general expectation and hope
that the system of slave labor prevalent in the Southern States
would in due time be superseded, and would disappear. The
determination in that instrument, of a date before which the
importation of slaves might not be prohibited, and the great
dedication by Virginia of vast territory to free labor in the then
Northwest ceded by her to the Union, place this fact beyond
question.
The great stimulus, however, given to this system of slave labor
by the cotton-gin, and the vast material interests of the slave States
dependent upon the production and supply of cotton to the world
by the only system of labor then available and adequate in those
States, arrested and postponed, if they did not change, this ex-
pectation and willingness of the South, that in due time the sys-
tem of slave labor would be superseded.
It cannot be doubted that at the time secession was resolved upon
and attempted, a large part, if not a majority, of the people of the
slave States had come to believe that their system of labor and the
vast interests then dependent upon it, as well as the structure of so-
ciety which this system had created, would be safer from disturbance
or overthrow under a government of their own, in which this sys-
tem of labor prevailed, than they could be in the Union, in which
free labor was rapidly becoming, if it had not already become, the
most powerful factor.
It may be admitted that the leaders of public opinion in the se-
ceding States, and the people of those States led by them, by whom
secession was resolved upon and attempted, were actuated by the
purpose to provide better security for those States and their system
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of labor and society tliaii tlicy believed could be enjoyed witliiii
the Union.
But they took no account of the calamities and desolation which
secession must bnng upon the other States of the Union, nor
of the rights of the people of those gi-eat States north of the Ohio
which had become, since its formation, members of the Union,
and justly relied for perpetual freedom of commerce by sea upon
the Mississipi)i and its tributaries, all the navigaVile waters of
which were within and part of their own country.
It cannot be claimed for those who led secession, that they were
animated by the same spirit which sustained the greatest son of the
South and of Virginia, wlicii he led and suffered with the citizen
soldiery from all the original States, upon the battle-fields of the
North as well as South, in the struggle for independence ; or which
sustained him and his compati'iots through the long twilight of the
Confederacy, to the clear light and solid ground of the Constitution.
One day of the patriotism, embracing the whole country, which
animated Washington and his army. North and South, in that strug-
gle, iiervadiiig and animating the seceding States, would have furled
every secession Hag, dissolved the armies of the Confederacy, and
returned those States to their places within the Union, to adjust
peacefully theii' grievances there, to the end that the rights of
every State 1)C jiresei'vod, and the advance of free constitutional
self-govcniiii.iit \n- lint liiihlcrcd or endangenMl within tlie boun-
daries of tlic Kt'iiulilic.
Secession, so far as ac<'oniiilislied, confionti'd tlie National rnioii
with diflficulties and dangers from wliicli it niiglit w.ll have been
expected to be exemjit by its founders, but against and for which
it is <li11i«-ult to see liow tliey .'ould have iirovide<l givatcr safe-
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guards, or greater powers of overcoming them, within their scheme
of free constitutional government resting upon and supported by
self-governed constituent States.
It created a crisis in our history and Government second in dan-
ger to none which had before occurred or can hereafter occur. If
the war for independence had failed, it could have been but for a
season. The colonies, animated with the purpose of self-govern-
ment, could not long have remained under the yoke of a Gov-
ernment three thousand miles distant. If the adoption of the
Constitution had failed when crowned with success, the Union
would have been postponed till continued suffering under the Con-
federacy would have made too clear to be doubted by the people of
any State the necessity for a National Government operating di-
rectly upon the citizens of every State, with powers adequate both
for its own preservation and for securing each State peace and self-
government within its own territory. But if, after seventy years
of progress and happiness under the Constitution, this Government
should fail to be able to protect its own life and continue the exercise
of the powers and duties for which it had been created, and with
which it had been intrusted by the people of all the States, not only
would its own dissolution be accomplished, but all hope for the per-
manence and extension of constitutional liberty and self-government
upon this continent, under the scheme devised by Washington and
his compatriots, would be at an end also. The success of secession
would of itself demonstrate to the loyal States and to the world
that oiii- Union, so suflficient for the exercise of National powers
and duties with other nations, lacked the power of cohesion and
self-preservation in a dissension between the States of the Union
themselves. If this Union, cemented by the ties of a common
224 YuyKEltS IN HIE UKhKI.IAOX.
struggle for independence, by the experiences of the Confederacy,
and by seventy years of progress and happiness under the Constitu-
tion, could iKiw be (lisiiitegi-ated at the "will or passion of a minor-
itj' of the States, there could remain no hope that any scheme of
united Government could be devised undeV which free constitu-
tional self-government could be continued and extended upon tliis
continent.
Secession accomi)]isheil would not only remove from the Union
the .seceded States, but, by establishing the i-ight of each State to
withdraw at will, would destroy the tie of direct allegiance from
the citizen of every State to the General Government, upon which
any Union must necessarily depend for efficiency and permanence,
and make impossible any Union between the States not exposed at
all times to destraction at the caprice or passion of a minority of
the States or a single State.
Secession, therefore, menaced the Nation with de.struetioii of the
Government, and, if successful, made impossible any Union or Gen-
eral Government created to secure the same gi-eat ends.
The powers of the National Union had been found anijile for
maintaining peace and conductimr war with the whole resources of
the country with the outside woild. IWit the test of unity and
power to which secession called the Union was greater tluin that
of any or all foreign wars in which the Nation had been or could
be engaged. The work now made necessary was the i)reservation
of the Uniou and the <'oii(|uest iiud icstoraliou of the seceded States
ti> tlieir plares within il. will: the lii^hts of tlie several States unim-
paired, save as the necessary coiidurt of tlie war whieli secession
compelled might change them.
Thi" resources, Itotli of life and treasure, i-e.iuired for tliis work
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were to be drawn wholly from the States aud people remaining
steadfast within the Union, while every life to be sacrificed on
either side was the life of a citizen of the Republic, and all trea-
sure and property to be expended or destroyed in the contest upon
both sides were part of the Nation's wealth. Not only were all re-
sources of the seceded States withdrawn from support of the Union,
but these were to be combined and hui'led with unsurpassed energy,
courage, and persistence against the Union arms and territory.
Past experience of the Government afforded no adequate guide
to the Executive and Congress through the obstacles and dangers
with which they were surrounded. The great trust imposed upon
the Executive of the Nation and those who shared with him the ex-
ecutive administi-ation, by their oaths of office, to pi'eserve, protect,
and defend the Constitution of the United States, was fully com-
prehended by him and them. It imposed the one duty to preserve
the Government in its integrity throughout the tenutory of the
Union, in exercise of all its powers, as defined in the Constitution
and laws made pursuant thereto. Never were men called to fulfil
gi'eater trusts. How well they did this, a reunited happy Nation
composed of this great family of forty-four free self-governing
States, each and aU rejoicing in the strength of the Nation as
their own strength, sufficiently attests and shall forever attest.
The part performed by the people of the loyal States, in the field
and upon the sea, in the army and navy, with whom those whose
services this Monument commemorates were identified and bore
an honorable part, is more pertinent to this hour. The services
commemorated by this Monument were rendered to preserve and
perpetuate the Union of these States, which is the equal protection
of the people of all the States. They were rendered by the actors
22(i YOXKEKS IX THE HF.UKLLIOX.
•■(juiilly t'(ir tliosi' witli wliom they contended as for themselves and
their children. It was a service in which brothers and kindred
must meet eacli ()ther in deadly combat on the field, — the most
trpng and painful patriots can be called to render for their country.
Without military organization or a trained soldiery with which to
meet this crisis, it would have been impossible for the Government
to preserve and transmit the Union but for the sacrifices and
services willingly and i)r()nii>tly rendered l»y the citizen soldiery.
It was essentially ii vuluntcer service, in which citizens left busi-
ness, home, and family to jx'rform paramount duty to country.
Such service could only be rendered by a soldiery who understood
the issue and the object for which they contended. Not a soldier
fought or fell in the Union army or navy whose arm was not
nerved liy love foi- American liberty as secured by the Constitution
and I'liioii, and by the convii-liou that if the riiioii i)erishe(l Ameri-
eaii liberty would perish with it. Educated in tln' si-liools of their
several States, citizens of tliese States and of the I'liitcd States,
they had experienced and knew what American lil)erty was: those
born elsewhere, who had tasted the liberties of other lands, had
come also to know the value of American liberty and American
citizenship by contrast as well as experience. They all — every
Ciiioii soMicr — knew that this liberty rested for security and ].er-
iiiaiic-iicc upon the I'liion and Constitution; knew that liy these
only thfir liiicrtics and rights were enlarged to the whole territory
of tile Kepublic instead of being confined, as before the Union, to
the States in which they lived. They were many of them merchants
and men of Imsiness, and knew well the difference between a single
State and the Kepultlic as the field of their enterprise and labor.
Some of tliciu iiad lircii int. Tested or .■nii.l..vrd in foreign roni-
THE DEDICATION. 227
mei'ce, aud all of them, whether from field, factory, or couuting-
room, kuew what the regulation of commerce, interstate and for-
eign, by thirty-four States, or an indefinite number of competing
self-protecting Republics, would import for themselves and their
descendants; knew the importance of having the navigable water-
ways and avenues of commerce between their own markets, and to
the ocean, within the territory of their own country. They were
men whose hopes of success and happiness for themselves and their
children were dependent upon peace between the States, and with
the nations of the earth, secured by a power adequate to command
and maintain it ; and they knew well that such peace could not be
provided for through thirty-four or any other number of dis-
united, separate States or Republics, each advancing its own in-
terests without regard to the interests of the others, but could only
be assured through the maintenance of the Union with the powers
of peace and war delegated by the Constitution, resting upon and
supported by all the resources of the country through the direct
allegiance of every citizen to the Republic.
There was not a soldier of the Union army who would have drawn
his sword against the rights of the people of the seceding States
under and within the Union. They fought only for the preserva-
tion of the rights and liberties of the citizens of all the States, North
and South, under the Constitution and Union.. They fought and,
when need be, died for the preservation of American liberty as
created and secured under the American Constitution and Union.
This liberty, under which the citizen is secured by the power of
the Nation in self-government in his own State, in freedom with
the rights of a citizen throughout the whole country, freedom of
the seas, and protection as an American citizen throughout the
•2-2H YOSKERS IS THE UEUELI.IOS.
world, l)y wliicli tlie power of all the States becomes the strength
of the weakest and of eveiy citizen of the Republic, the soldiers
and sailors whose services and sacrifices this Monument commem-
orates had determined, with their great Commander-in-Chief and
the whole army and navy of the Union, should not perish from the
earth. It will never perish so long as a free people shall appreciate it.
It has been said by a foreign statesman, whose oinuious are
entitled to the highest respect, that, since the war for the preser-
vation of the Union, "the old and respectable doctrine of State in-
dependence is now no more than an archaeological relic, a piece of
historical antiquarianism." This statement, notwithstanding its
high source, will not be accepted by American statesmen, north or
south of the Potomac. Since the adoption of the Constitution, the
right of " State independence" in the exercise of powers delegated
therein to the General Government has not had any existence ex-
cept in minds infected with the heresy of secession. Such right, as
it existed under the confederacy, was exchanged and merged by the
people of each State, by the adoption of the Constitution, in the
vastly greater right of exercising such delegated powers jointly
with the people of all the States, not merely within and upon- their
own States, but upon and throughout the whole Union, in the whole
firld of its powers. Xcitlifi- the adoption of tlif <'(>iistitiitioii nor
IIr' preservation of it aiul tlic Union lessened oi- can lessen iiny
just rights of the States. Tlie adoption modified by eidarging and
forever securing them by the power of the Nation. The jireserva-
tion liy the .services we now conniii'iiiorate ami siieh as ilie-e jilaeed
beyond doiiht oi- denial the ability of this Union to maintain its ex-
istence and the full exercise of its great powers for the protection
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and perpetuation of self-go vei-iiment, under difficulties greater than
it can ever again encounter.
The services we commemorate have placed beyond further ques-
tion the paramount duty of every citizen to maintain the Union
against all dissensions or dangers, and have furnished the highest
example of duty and allegiance to which citizens can ever be called.
It will never again be doubted that maintenance of the Union is
maintenance of the rights and liberties of the people of the States,
and that the most valuable of all State rights is that the Union be
maintained under the Constitution forever.
As attempted secession for the first time iu our history called into
exercise the whole powers of the Union, under difficulties which
can never be surpassed, so the triumphant exercise of these powers
under such difficulties has forever put an end to doubt of the Na-
tion's ability and paramount duty to preserve and transmit these
powers undiminished forever, unless modified as provided in the
great charter by which they were created and delegated. It will
never again be contended by statesmen iu any part of the country
that this Union is less capable than any other government to com-
mand and enforce obedience and support from every citizen.
Nor can the exercise of these great National powers endanger the
liberties of the citizen within the States. They were given, and
can be exercised, only for the protection and security of these
liberties. Their strength is the strength of protection surrounding
each citizen within his own State. These vast powers can be held
and exercised only by those elected by the people of these States
from their own numbers and to give effect to their will. The
people of the States, therefore, have, and will forever have, through
230 YONKKUS IX THE ItEBELLION.
their ropreseutatives and elected or ai)ip()iiit('(l agents, control of
these powers and their exercise.
Nor is there danger that intentional injustice be done to any
part or section of the Union. By the living, active participation of
every State and of every citizen in enactment of its laws and in the
whole conduct of the General Government, the just interests and
needs of every section are made known to all, and the interest of
the representatives of each section to make no precedent of injustice
which may aften\^ard excuse injustice toward their own, makes cer-
tain and constant the vigilance of all to permit no injustice toward
any State or section. " Do unto others as ye would that they should
do unto you," thus becomes the rule which the interest of all sec-
tions demands, and must enforce, in this gi-eat brotherhood of States
toward one another under the Union. Temporary and slight de-
partures from it there may be, but they cannot be more lasting
than the tvaiisicnt s('<'tional aiiiliition or passion which may cause
them.
Fellow-citizens, what advancement possible for man under hu-
man government may not be accomplished by the people of these
States iinder this Union, in obedience to this rule incorporated and
made self-executing in every fiber of its structure!
flow, now, shall we estimate the services on land and sea by
which this Union was })reserved and perpetuated .' Wc may esti-
mate them l)y results already accomplished. Not only was the dis-
integration and destruction of the Union ])rev('nted, but its perpetual
unity and the power and duty to maintain it have been established
so that they are not likely again to be doubted in this Repul)lic.
Instead of disintegi-ation and secession, ten new States have already,
since these were attcnijited, been added to this great brotlierhood of
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States, each becomiug part of our great National life and power, in
possession and enjoyment forever of the rights and liberties which
the Union confers.
But that conquest is greatest which conquers the hearts not less
than the arms of the enemy. Fi'om the people of the conquered
States comes equal evidence of the value of the services by which
the Union was preserved. Conquered to self-government within a
preserved indissoluble Union, whose protection and benefit they
shall forever enjoy equally with their conquerors, it is safe to say
they will never again be found among its enemies. The only cause
which estranged them temporarily from the Union was abolished
in the necessary progress of the war — abolished that the Union
might live. Henceforth, no interest not in harmony with the
Union and the great objects for which it was created shall sepa-
rate these or any other States from its love.
Whatever estimate we may place upon the services which saved
and perpetuated this Union, will be increased by posterity so long
as they shall enjoy its benefits and blessings. As we now build
higher monuments to those who achieved independence, so shall
they build higher and whiter to those who secured and transmitted
American liberty in a pi'eserved indissoluble Union.
Enthusiastic applause and cheers were given when the orator
concluded. "America" was then grandly sung by the chorus,
with band accompaniment.
232 YOSKEKS IX THE BEBELLION.
" The Men Who Saved the L'niun.^
The next feature of the programme was the recitation of the
following poem, written for the occasion by S. R. Whitney, of Yon-
kers. Subject, " The Men Who Saved the Union." Rev. Thomas
P. McLoughlin, of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, was
the reciter. His dear, ringing voice and self-possessed manner,
combined with tlie patriotic sentiments of the excellent poem, pro-
duced a tine eflfeet. He was enthusiastically applauded, and the
more telling sentiments wore received also with demonstrations of
appreciation.
Now draw aside the cnfoldiiif.' veil
With bended brow and reverent liand.
And let a thousand voices hail
The symbols of a rescued land.
The bronze and fi^ranite raised to fame
Shall waste before the touch of years,
But deathless e'er shall be the name
Of those who dried the Nation's tears.
Descend, ye spirits of the brave,
And walk onc^> more the solid earth,
Behold the land your valor <rave
The impulse to a nol)ler birtli.
No longer is the idle boast
Of Freedom on lli(> lips of men :
Now we are free from coast to coast.
A frreater, better race than then.
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The cry of Freedom, dying, di-ew
A mighty host from every side.
And thousands, who to rescue flew,
In shock of battle nobly died.
O holy brotherhood of death !
Thy honor none can take away —
Nor slander tarnish with her breath
The fame ye gathered in that day.
It circles all the grateful sphere,
And men of every chme and race
Look to our land as doubly dear,
As Freedom's sm-e abiding-place.
The Nation's heroes sleep in peace.
We reap the hai-vest of their toil,
And year by year the rich increase
Is garnered from a fi-uitful soil.
The ground is holy where they sleep.
And every mound an altar where
A loyal, grateful people keep
The flowers of a Nation's care.
No crowned monarch's sceptered hand
Has raised a tribute to theii' name,
But love has reared, throughout the land.
The stately shafts which speak their fame —
The annals of our country's pride,
So written in their deaths and lives,
That hateful envy ne'er can hide
The matchless glory that survives.
They left their plowshares in the field.
And thrust aside all selfish strife ;
They nerved theii' brawny arms to wield
Their swords, to save the Nation's Ufe.
234 YOSKKRS IX THE l<i:iiKI.LI(jy.
Through days of toil and nights of pain,
When darkness lower'd on ev'ry side,
And bullets fell as drops of rain,
They saw grim death about them ride.
Great Lincoln's hand was at the helm.
And steered the staggering ship of state ;
No storm could such a heart o'erwhelm —
In ilanger he was doubly great.
Thine not the splendid scroll of fame,
Where blood alone makes glory bright,
Where virtue hides her head in sliame,
And wrong is victor over right.
A priceless boon to us ye gave :
Ye made the Nation true and strong.
Ye broke the fetters of the slave.
And crushed a most oppressive wrong.
O noble race, it is not least
Of all the gloi-ies of thy past.
That love should be tlie great high priest
To make thy woes a bond so fast.
terraced town ! thou wast not last
To send thy heroes to the field.
Their willing steps were firm and fast.
Their loyal hearts with courage steeled.
They bravely fought on land and sea.
Nor ever turned their backs to foes ;
They earned thy love by honoring thee
Wlioro fell the battle's thickest l)lows.
The tnmiping of your marching feet,
Tlif wild liuiTah and deafening cheer.
The piercing life and ilnim's loud beni
No more shall start the listening ear.
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No Roman ever more deserved
Tbe plaudits of imperial Rome
Than those brave men who freely served
Our State, and made it Freedom's home
Deserve of us, for duty done,
For dangers brav'd through toil and stiife,
For many battles duly won,
When on them hung the Nation's life.
We '11 ever cherish those who fought,
And to oui- children tell wdth pride,
Of all the good devotion brought
When for the Union patriots died.
Unveilinff the Monument.
John W. Oliver next escorted Miss Susie Leeds Heermance,
daughter of Colonel Heermance, to the Monument; and that young
lady unveiled the granite pile, with the assistance of Thomas
Oliver, Infantry, and Samuel Lynt, Artillery, of Kitching Post;
and of David A. Winans, Cavalry, and Moses H. Lester, Sailor,
of John C. Fremont Post. "Keller's American Hymn" was played
by the band during the ceremony. As the flags were removed
from the Monument, and it stood out in all its beauty, unveiled,
there was hearty and long-continued cheering and applause.
23tj YOXKEUS IS THE KEHELLIOS.
The DedUutinfi Address.
President (xorton tln'ii formally (loflir-ated the Monnnii'ut, as
follows :
In all ages iiioiiiuiunts have been erected to commeiiiorate tli.-
valor of the soldier oi' tlie achievements of the eoiuiueror. They
have usually marked a single battle-field oi- honored the memory of
only one man. The memorials of the citizens of oui" Republic are
in honor of citizens like themselves, who became soldiers in a holy
cause, and fell for their country, or returned to the peaceful walks
of civil life in a land saved liy their valor. Li\nng or dead, glorified
liy the cause of Innnaiiity foi' wlii.'li they fought, they dwell with
the immortals. They are all alike heroes in the memory of a
grateful Nation.
In our affectionate remembrance there is no distinction of rank.
They stood together as the greatest and noblest army that ever rose
from the bosom of a Republic to do battle for her defence and for
the cause of human freedom. The great leaders of that mighty
host have sunk to rest, and the rank and file that remain are grow-
ing old, and are swiftly pushing on toward the ford where Lincoln
and Farragut, Sheridan and Sherman, crossed the river. All too
soon the rear-guard will liave crossed, ami have left heliind their
memory and their work.
To their memory, and to immortal remendiranee, and to that
work in its completeness, we consecrate this Monument. This As-
sociation and the people of this fair city dedicate this Monument
to the memory of "the men of Yoiiker.s who fought \o save the
rnion."
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We dedicate it in the solemn belief that under the protection of
the God of our fathers, whom Lincoln trusted with unwavering
faith, liberty and union inseparable shall be more enduring than
this granite pile.
Tacitus said to the wife and daughter of Agricola, that, like the
face of man, images of brass and marble were perishable, and he
bade them remember the qualities of mind and soul, for they
were everlasting.
We have built to commemorate the patriotism and valor of those
brave souls who went forth prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice
of life for their country. They saved the Union and abolished sla-
very. The one included the other. Lincoln said in his second
annual message to Congress, " In giving freedom to the slave
we assure freedom to the free."
And so we dedicate this Monument to the men of Yonkers who
nobly bore their part in the endeavor to make freedom as broad as
our beautiful laud ; to cement a Union that shall never be broken ;
to secure peace that shall never be interrupted by domestic discord
or fratricidal war.
As Mr. Gorton ceased speaking, the band struck up the tune of
"Old Hundred," and the Stars and Stripes were raised to the top
of the Manor Hall flagstaff by Timothy Murphy, of Kitching Post,
and John H. Lawrence, of Fremont Post, as a signal for the naval
salute. On the instant the great guns of the Boston thundered out
their salutation. Just as they were fired, two doves flew over the
Monument — regarded as an omen of peace. Colonel Matt. H. Eflis
proposed three cheers for the flag, and they were given with a will.
238 YOKKEBS IK THE REBELLION.
^^ Jfo)/or Our Loi/al Men
The followiug pocin, written for the occasion hy ^Irs. Jennie L.
Lyall, was recited by Mrs. Eleanor Georgen. Tlic fiiir recitationist
was neatly attired in white, and looked charming, and her reciting
was replete with art and grace. Her voice can-ied well, and she
received hearty ap])lause from an admiring audience.
Peace reigns — our glorious land is free !
In dust lies Slavery's chain !
Our honored flag floats proudly now
From bounding main to main.
The fields with flowers are bright, to-day,
Where once our soldiers trod,
And harvests rich for years have waved
Above the blood-stained sod.
On hist'ry"s page are written names
Of gallant men and true.
And thousands lie unknown, unsung.
Who wore the loyal blue.
Our noble dead ! Witli front of steel
They met the traitorous blow ;
And m this earven monument
Our gratitude we show.
With iiearts tliat swell with thankful joy
We these glad tributes bring.
And l:iy the offerings at his feet.
Anil hail tlie siililier king!
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For sweet is the sound of the fife and the drum,
And sweet is the martial air,
And merry the tramp of the marching feet,
When peace reigns everywhere.
And we love to gaze on the trappings of war,
And to hear the cannons' blare.
And smile as the uniformed troops pass by,
When peace is everywhere.
Then honor our loyal men and true !
And rear the pile on high !
And ask God's blessing on the land
For which they chose to die.
O Father of Nations, we offer Thee praise!
Dii-ect and preserve us. Thou Ancient of Days !
The land of our love, oh, uphold it in right,
May Freedom and Equity govern with might.
The torch that is blazing in Liberty's hand,
may its pure beams so illumine the land,
That Virtue and Knowledge shall lead men to see
That wrong is enslavement, and right liberty.
May the years, as they mount on the ladder of time,
See progress advancing to far heights subUme,
And mankind unshackled, and free from the stain
Of cruel oppression for greed and for gain.
And the Union of States, oiu' Nation's great plan.
May it teach us the lesson— man's fealty to man !
Each loyal to each, and one motto for all :
" United we stand, divided we fall."
"The Star-Spaugled Bauuer" was then admirably suug, with
baud accompaniment.
240 YOyKEl{,'i IX THE UEBELLKjy.
The Closiuf/ I'raifer.
Rev. l)i-. .liiliii lit'id, pastor of the First Presbyterian Chureli,
then oflfered the following? jirayer:
Almighty and Eternal God, we desire now t(» niidcr unto thee
our hearty tribute of praise and thanksgi\nng for the divine favor
which has marked this hour and these exercises. We tliank thee
for the brightness and the beauty of the day ; for the kindness and
generosity which have attended its plans; for the success and
the pleasure which have crowned them all.
Lord, thou wast the overhanging Rock that sheltered our land
in tlie time of storm, tlie strong Refuge to which the people fled.
Still tliou alone ait ( Jod, in whom is all our trust. And we Imnibly
pray that around this Monument, which we have erected to com-
memorate the names and deeds of our own illustrious and honored
soldiers and sailors who fought to save the Union, and because
we also love liberty and would be courageous in the right — we
humlily pray that around it there may gather and play those in-
fluences which will make it a perpetual lesson to our children and
our children's children unto the remotest generation of the com-
munity in the midst of whieh it is reared. Reminding us of the
great cost at which the Nation preserved its purchase, may it teaeli
us ever to guard her institutions with all holy zeal, and to iiold
our liV)erty as more than our life.
And as in this same way the preserved iui>ulilii' .v. lywh.i-e
honors (he memory and enshi-ines \\u- jialriotism of her sailors
THE DEDICATION. 241
and soldiers who fought her battles, we pray that everywhere her
people may be a li\ing monument to advocate her union and her
greatness, to advance her usefulness and her glory.
And now may the presence and the peace of Almighty God, with
all plenty and prosperity, prevail among you and throughout the
length and breadth of this land so long as time shall last. Amen
and amen.
William J. Bright gave the "taps" by bugle, and then the
Fourth Separate Company fired three volleys in perfect unison.
As the gi-eat, happy crowd dispersed, the baud played a lively air.
IN THE EVENING.
The Yonkei's Corinthian Yacht Club honored the occasion by a
grand lantern parade on the Hudson. The boat-house was bril-
liantly illuminated by nearly three hundred showy lanterns and
thirty electric lights. Forty boats of various classes were in line,
bearing one thousand lanterns. Admiral A. J. Prime was in com-
mand, and the boats moved at half-past eight o'clock.
The Club House was crowded with spectators. The procession
went to Ludlow, thence to Grlenwood, and then back to the anchor-
age. Torches were burned on the yachts, and there was a fine dis-
play of fireworks off the Club House. The big war-ship Boston
had its powerful search-lights in operation, and saluted the fleet
with fireworks and long blasts from her deep whistle. The parade
was half a mile long. It was viewed by thousands of people along
242 YONKHHS IS THE RKltELLION.
the rivei'-frout. After the jtarado daueiug ami refreshmeuts were
enjoyed in flu- lioat-liunse.
Never in the liistory of the Palisade Boat Chib did its boat-house
look prettier than it did on that night, when a reception and dance
were given in honor of the dedication. Flags of all nations were
prettily draped about, and lanterns wei"e conspicuous.
The guests began to an-ive at eight o'clock, and shortly after that
time two hundred and fifty had assembled. The boat-room was
used for dancing, all the boats having been taken out. The music
was furnisheil l>y luomlters of the West Point Band, led by Charles
E. Moscow.
The officers of the Boston present wen; : Lieutenant W. A. Ed-
gar, Ensigns F, J. Haeseler and C. F. Hughes, Pajnuaster I. G.
Hobbs, and Assistant Engineer E. H. Scribner.
The handsome costumes of the ladies, the conventional dress suits
of the gentlemen, and the uniforms of the naval officers made a
pleasant contrast. Dancing was kept up until al)ont midnight,
when refreshments were served in the ineefiug-rooin on the second
floor.
The committee, who deserve credit for the success of the affair,
was composed of Edwin M. Jackson, C. P. Marsden, Jr., (". 1. I5el-
knap, E. E. Bashford, Carroll Moore, Hall B. AVariug, an<l P. B.
Rossire.
CHAPTER XVI.
THE ASSOCIATION'S WORK COMPLETED.
The Enclosure — The Memorial Volume — All Obligations
Promptly Met.
ON the morning after the dedication the Executive Committee
issued a circular appealing for two thousand dollars to meet
contingent and dedicatory expenses, the cost of inclosing the
Monument, &c. Within two hours after the circular was mailed
the following letter was received :
Mr. John W. Oliver, Treasurer.
My Dear Sir: In answer to an appeal from the Executive Committee of the
Monument Association, received this morning, I take great pleasure in inclosing
herewith a check toward the completion of the Monument.
I desire in addition to say that, as a citizen of Yonkers, I owe to your committee,
and to yourself especially, a debt of gi-atitude of wliich this check is a weak
expression. The debt remains uncanceled.
Your persistent and unwearying efforts, overriding every discom-agement fi-om
your warmest friends, have resulted in the dedication, yesterday, of a most beauti-
ful tribute of respect to the memory of those to whom we owe so much.
As a work of art it is an ornament to our city of which all may be proud. As a
sentiment it will be pointed to with respect in coming years by the descendants of
244 YOXKEB.S IX THE KEBELLIOS.
those who clieerfully f^avc up their lives that our Republic might live iutaet and
undivided.
As a reminder to those of us who are left of the duty each owes to the community
in which bis lot is cast, it may, I trust, be of untold value.
Again, Mr. Oliver and gentlemen of the Executive Committee, I tliank you, and
tender to you my sincere congratulations in the well-earned reward of all your
labors. A Citizen of Yoxkers.
The elieek that accompanied thi.s highly coinplimeiitary letter
was for $1,000, being the largest iiulividiial subscription made to
the patriotic work — and a condition of the gift was, that the name
of the donor should not be published. In exactly one month from
the time the appeal was made for $lJ,000, the amount was more
than made up.
At a meeting of the Association held October 1.'), it was unani-
mously determined to abandon the plan of inclosing the Monument
with an iron fence, as had been contemplated, and to substitute
therefor a granite enclosure designed by Edwin A. Quick & Sou,
to correspond with the Monument. The Executive Committee
was authorized to contract for the work. Cost, about $1,000.
As T.Astley Atkins had completed his task as Historian, Charles
E. Gorton and .lolin W. Olivci- were appointed to edit and jirepare
the woi-k fcti-tlic )(rcss,aiiil the ExecutiveConimittee was authorized
to publish til.' huoU. It iiiorr tliaii |iai(l t'.-v its.-lf.
The entire expenses of the Association, inchnliiig tlir Moinuiicut,
the dedication, the enclosure, and the i)nl)lication of this Memorial
Volume, amounted to $1.5,000; and those intrusted with the respon-
sibility experience much .satisfaction in bt-ing alilc tn iccoid the
fact that every o1)ligation was jiromjitly met wiien it brcaiin' due
CHAPTER XVII.
CONTRIBUTORS TO THE MONUMENT FUND.
The Association — Its Officers and Principal C'ommittees.
Abrams, Miss Edna Wilson
Ackerly, Miss Alice
Aekerly, Geo. M. Bailey
Ackerman, Jolm W.
Ackerman, Mrs. John W.
Ackerman, William H.
Adam, Mrs. Thomas
Adams, George E.
Admirer of the Monument.
Affleck, Frank B.
Affleck, Miss Grace
Affleck, James
Affleck, Mrs. James
Affleck, James G.
Affleck, William
Affleck, Mrs. William
Agne, Henry
Aii-ey, Miss Florence
Airey, Miss Iva
Alexander, Miss Bertha
Alexander, Miss Grace
Alexander, James Stewart
Alexander, John W.
Alexander, Mrs. John W.
Alexander, Miss Marion
Alexander, Miss May
Alexander, Mrs. Robert E.
Allen, C. D.
Allen, WiUiam
Allison, Rev. Charles E.
Allison, Robert
Alton, Mrs. C. D., Jr.
Alton, Miss Mary Brace
Alvord, Joseph M.
Anderson; A.
Anderson, Albert
Anderson, Mrs. C. L.
Anderson, Miss Grace
Anderson, Henry M.
Anderson, Robert W.
Andrews, Mrs. Joseph, Jr.
Andrews, Mrs. Joseph, Sr.
Andrus, Hamlin J.
Andrus, Mrs. Hamlin J.
Andrus, John E.
Anstice, Mrs. Henry
Archard, Mrs. Eliza
Arcliard, Miss S. E.
24(i
YOXKEIiS IN THE REBELLION.
Archbold, John D.
Archer, Henry B.
Archer, Mrs. Henry B.
Archer, Louis W.
Archer, Miss S. J.
Archibald, Andrew
Armour, J. O.
Armstrong, Miss Lulu
Armstrong-, Robbie
Arrowsmith, Mrs.
Atkins, T. Astley
Austin, Miss Eva
Austin, Miss Minnie
Backus, John
Bailey, Miss Fannie Strong
Bailey, Mrs. William N.
Baird, Henry M., D. 1).
Baird, Mrs. Heni-y M.
Baird, Miss JiUia F.
Baird, Jliss Margaret
Baker, Fisher A.
Baker, Mrs. Fisher A.
Baker, J. F.
Baker, J. H.
Balch, Miss Margaret A.
Baldwin, Mrs. C. W.
Baldwin, S. W.
Baldwin, William 1).
Baldwin, William H.
Baldwin, Mrs. William II.
Ball, Bertran
Ballard. Arthur 1).
Banker, Mrs. (Jeorge
Barclay, Charles G.
Barclay, Miss Florence A.
Barclay, Samuel
Barclay, Mrs. Saiiiufl
Barker, Byron
Barnard, A.
Barnes, Mrs. Jerome 1).
Barnes, Mrs. R.
Bartlett, Mrs. H.
Bashlord, Jlrs. Esther A.
Bates, ( "Larles P.
Baxter, Mi-s. A. M.
Beaudrias, Ali)honso J.
Beck, Miss Jlinnie
Beecher, Col. H. D.
Beemer, James G.
Beemer, Mrs. James G.
Behrens, Mrs. B. M.
Belknap, MLss Athenia A.
Belknap, Miss A. B.
Belknap, Mrs. A. J.
Belknap, Mi-ss Edith B.
Belknap, Ethelbert
Belknap, Mrs. Ethelbert
Belknap, Mrs. William H.
BeU, Mrs. A.
Bell, Miss Ida F.
Bell, Mi-s. J. Christy
Bell, Mrs. J. Harvey
BeU, Mrs. John T.
Benedict, Dr. A. C.
Benedict. D.
Bennett, Mrs. James
Bent, E. M.
Bereaved Mother.
Bernstein, J. S.
Berrian, John.
Berrian, M. L.
BeiTie, Mrs. M. H.
Beutler. William E.
Beutler, Jlrs. Wm. E.
B. H.
Blanchard, Col. B. W.
Blatzheim, Mi-s. Franz
Blauvelt, JIi-s. J.
Bloomingdale Brothers.
Blute, J. H.
Hogart, Mrs. R. W.
Holton, Miss Mary
Holza, Mrs. A.
Molza. Miss Bertha
Booth, Thomas E.
Howei-s. Henry M.
Bowei-s, Miss Libbie
Bowman, Mrs. H.
Boyd, John A.
Brady, John
Bragg, Miss Kni.na L.
CON TBIBU TORS TO THE MONUMENT FUND.
247
Bragg, Mrs. H. T.
Butler, Miss Emilv AUen
Brennan, John P.
Butler, Ethan Plagg
Brennan, Mrs. John F.
Butler, Miss HaiTiet A.
Brevoort, Hem-y F.
Butler, Miss Helen Hays
Bright, Mrs. John
Butler, John Crosby
Brookmeier, Mrs. Charles
Butler, L.
Brogan, Mr.
Butler, LjTuan CoUms
Brophy, John
Butler, Miss Mareia Plagg
Brown, Miss A. G.
Butler, Miss Maiy L.
Brown, Mrs. Charles P.
Butler, William Allen
Brown, Daniel
Butler, Mrs. Wm. Allen
Brown, Mrs. P.
Butler, William Allen, Jr.
Brown, Harold
Butler, Mrs. Wm. Allen, Jr.
Brown, Mrs. Harold
Butler, William Allen 3d
Brown, G. W.
Bynon, Mrs. Charles P.
Brown, J. C.
Brown, Mrs. J. C.
Caddo, Mrs. Thomas
Brown, Mrs. J. H.
Cadwell, Mrs. A. E.
Brown, Mrs. John P.
CaUan, Miss M. J.
Brown, Mrs. William
Campbell, Mrs. John C, Jr.
Browne, Dr. Valentine
Campbell, John 0.
BrowneU, Mrs. A. S.
CampbeU, Miss MiUie
Brownson, Miss Caroline E.
Canapi, Joseph
Brownson, Miss Han-iet
Canapi, Mrs. Joseph
Brownson, Mrs. Willard H.
Canavan, Mrs. Vincent
Bruce, George W.
Canning, Mrs. Reginald
Bruce, Miss M. H.
Cannon, Mrs. James
Buckman, Mrs. C. M.
CanteU, Robert
Burehen, Bamet
Carey, John
Burgess, Mrs. David
Cai-penter, Miss Clara
Burnett, L.
Carpenter, Mrs. E. 0.
Bumham, Alexander 0.
Carpenter, Miss Fannie H.
Burnham, Mrs. J. W.
Cai-penter, Miss Julia E.
Burns, Mrs. Aphia
Carpenter, Mrs. Margaret
Burns, A. G.
Carr, Mrs. William
Bums, Arthur J.
Carroll, WiUiam
Bums, Miss Gertmde L.
Cash.
Bums, Mrs. Edward
Chadbourn, Mrs. John
Burns, Miss EHzabeth M.
Chamberlain, Miss P. G.
Burns, J. Irving
Chapin, Charles
Burns, William
Chapman, Charles
Butler, Mrs. Adelaide L.
Christie, George
Butler, Charles Henry
Chystrans, Frederick
Butler, Mrs. Charles Henry
Citizen of Yonkers.
Butler, Charles MarshaU
City Club.
Butler, Charles Terry
Clapp, Mrs. E. M.
248
YONKEUS IN THE KEliELLIOX.
Clapp, Mrs. Howard
Clapperton, Miss
CLirk, Miss Alraira
Clark. Miss Kmiline R.
Clark, Lucius E.
Clark, Mrs. Salter S.
Clarke, J. A.
Clerkie, Patrick
Cleveland, Cyrus
Cleveland, Mrs. Cjths
Clune, Francis
Clune, Peter
Cobb, Miss Bessie
Cobb. MissC. Schuyler
Cobb. Mifis Carrie Otis
Cobl), Miss ( 'ornelia W.
Cobb, (ieorfre W.
Cobb, Miss Hazel
Cobb, Lyniau, Jr.
Cobb, Mrs. Martha C.
Cobb, Raffaelle
Cobb, Raffaelle, Jr.
Coclirane & Colquhoun.
Cochran, William F.
Coffey, John
Cole, Mi-s. Albert
Cole, Arthur Martin
Cole, ('larence Stewart
Cole. Rev. David, D. D.
Cole, Mrs. David
Cole, Frank
Cole, F. W.
Cole, J. Wyckoff
Cole, Mrs. J. Wyckoff
Coles, Mrs. A. Y.
Coles, Miss EUa J.
Coles, Miss EUa Y.
Coles, Mi-8. E. RussoU
Collins, Charles
Collins, Mrs. Charles
Collins, Mlss Mary Terry
Color Rearer.
Columbia.
Condon. .1.
Condon. L. R. & Sou.
Conklin, Mrs. ('luirles
Connell, E.
Conniff, P. J.
Connolly. Jliss Bertha
Constable, WilUani J.
Constable, WiUiam P.
Constable, Mrs. William P.
Cook, Miss Florence M.
Cook, Miss Fredericka J.
Cook, Frederick S.
Cook, Miss Isabel B.
Cook, Miss Mary
Cooley, George
Cooley, Henry
Coon, Fred
Cooper, Daniel J.
Cooper, Miss Emily L.
Cooper, Miss Helen E.
Cooper, S. F.
Cooper, Samuel Goodsell
Cooper. Samuel L.
Copcutt, Miss A. C.
Copeutt, Mrs. John
Copcutt, William H.
Corley, Rev. Charles R.
Cornell, Mrs. Jane E.
Cornell. Thomas C.
Corwin, WilUam F.
Cor win. W. H.
Costin, Edward
Costin, M.
Com-ter, James C.
Courtney, John T.
Courtripht, Theodore
Couzens, Matthew K.
Couzens, Jlrs. William S.
Cojme, J.
Coyne, Mrs. Mary D.
Cozzens, Charles L.
Cozzens, Mrs. Charles L.
Craig, Mi.'is Annie L.
Crandall, Mrs. I. H., Jr.
Crislield. Mr.-s. Charles R.
Crisfield. Mi.ss Edith
("rosby, Mi-s. E. H. (Egypt)
Crosby. Mi.ss
Crowther, Mrs. Joim
CONTRIBUTOBS TO THE MONUMENT FUND.
249
C. S., Junior.
C. S., Senior.
Cummings, Frederick
Cummings, John Wesley
Curran, Mrs. F. A.
Curtis, Mrs. Alvin T.
Cutbill, Miss Amelia
Dailey, James
Daly, Mrs. George
Daly, J.
Daly, Joseph F.
Daly, Mrs. Joseph F.
Danforth, Mrs. C. D.
Daniels, Miss Beulah
Deane, Mrs. M. J.
Dee, Miss B. F.
Dee, Michael
Deitzel, August
Deitzel, Mrs. August
Delaney, Daniel
Delaney, R.
Dennerleia, John C.
Deviue, John
Devitt, John J.
Devitt, Mrs. John J.
Deyo, Andi-ew
Deyo, Mrs. Andi-ew
Deyo, PhiUp A.
Deyo, Mrs. Philip A.
Deyo, Miss
Dick, Mrs. M. E.
Dickson, Arthur A.
Dimock, Mrs. Giles S.
Diusmore, George E.
Dixon, John
Dodge, N. Dane
Dodge, Mrs. Nathan D., Jr.
Doherty, George
Doherty, Mrs. E.
Dolan, Patrick
Donoghue, Francis X.
Donohue, Mrs. Bernard
Douohue, John C.
Donzel, Miss Emily
Doolity, John
Doran, Mrs. D. A.
Doran, Miss May
Doren, Mrs. A. W.
Dorland, Miss C. K.
Dorney, John
Doty, Miss Ada L.
Doty, Leonard K.
Doty, Spencer C.
Doty, WiUiam H.
Doty, Mrs. William H.
Doyle, Albert
Doyle, Edward ElUs
Drinkwater, Walter A.
Dubois, Mi-s. Lewis
Ducros, Miss Reine
Duffy, 0.
Dunn, Miss Jennie
Dimn, W.
Dusenben-y, Mrs. Chas. R.
Dusenberry, Miss
Dutton, Mrs. Albert
Dykes, Mrs. James
East, John A.
East, Mrs. John A.
East, Miss Olive L.
Edgar, Mrs. Eleanor
Edgar, Wilham B.
Ehrenspeck, Hei-man
Eickemeyer, Miss Appel
Eickemeyer, Carl
Eickemeyer, Rudolf
Eickemeyer, Mrs. Rudolf
Eickemeyer, Rudolf, Jr.
Eifert, David
Ellen, Robert
EUis, Matt. H.
Ellis, Mrs. Matt. H.
Ellsworth, William W.
Eltiug, Miss Edith
Elting, Ezekiel J.
Elting, Mrs. Ezekiel J.
Eltiug, Miss Laura L.
Eltiug, Peter J.
Elting, Mrs. Peter J.
Ely, W. H. H.
250
YOXKERS IN THE HEliELLION.
Embree, Mrs. John
Englehart, Georpe
Eschinann, Miss Elsio
Eschmann, F. W. R.
Eschmanu, Mrs. F. W. R.
Etheradge, Mrs. Jennie
Evans, W.
Everson, E. W.
Ewald, John
Ewing, Miss Beall
Ewing. James
Ewing, Miss Maria
Ewnng, Mrs. Thomas
Ewing, William
Eylers, Charles W. T.
Eylers, Miss Eva E.
Eylers, John
Eylers, John D.
Eylers, Winifred C.
Farrington, Benjamin W.
Farrington, Mrs. Emma L.
Fairington, Miss Jessie
FaiTington, Samuel L.
Fawcett, Mrs. Robert
Fechteler, Caspar
Ferguson, Miss Ethel M.
Ferguson, Miss Isabelle G.
Ferguson, John H.
Ferguson. Mrs. loliii H.
Fiedler. . I iiM us 11.
Fields. Aii.lnw ( '.
Fink, H. •
Fink, Mrs. John H.
Finnel, William
Fisher, Miss l.l.i K.
Fisher, (i !,'. W.
Fisher, Miss Lillian
Fisher, Miss Marion
Fisher, Miss R. L.
Fisher, Raymond P.
Fisher, WiHiam H.
Fisher, Mrs. William H.
Fiteh, Edward A.
Filch. Mi.ss Flonncr M.
Fitch, James S.
Fitch, Mrs. James S.
Fitch, Theodore
Fitzelle, Albert E.
Fitzelle, Calvin R.
Fitzelle, Francis A., Jr.
Fitzelle, Mi.ss Marion G.
Fitzgerald, C. H.
Fitzgerald, J.
Fitzgerald, John
Flagg. Mrs. Ethan
Flagg. Miss E. P.
Flagg, Miss L. W.
Flagg, Mrs. L. W.
Flagg, Miss
Flannery, Patrick J.
Flannerj', Sirs. Patrick J.
Flood. Mr.s. Mathias
Foerst, John
Foerst, Airs. John
Fogarty, Mrs. B. M.
Foley, D.
Foley, James
Fones, Miss Slaggie
Fones, Dr. Robert A.
Fones, Mrs. S. A.
Foote, Miss H. D.
Forsyth, B. A.
Forsj'th. Miss Fannie E.
Forsj^h, Miss Marion W.
Foster, Mrs. Atherton
Foster, Mrs. E. R.
Fo.ster, Willard
Fowler, Arthur Melville
Fowler, Miss Jennie A.
Fowler, Mrs. Peter U.
Frankenberg, Charles
Frazier, George
Frazier, Miss Lizzie J.
Frey. Mrs. B.
Friend. A (0)
Friend, A, Richmond, Va.
Friend, A Loyal
Friend, A True
Friend of the Cause.
Frost. W. T.
GONTRIBUTOBS TO THE MONUMENT FUND.
251
Fuhs, Mrs. Catharine
Fuller, Mrs. Margaret
Gadsby, Mrs. H. H.
Gale, Joseph C.
Garmbrandt, William
GaiTal)raiidt, William, Jr
Gan-ison, ;\Irs. Hyatt L.
Garrison. William fl.
Garnjost, Miss Edna
Garnjost, Frederick W.
Gaid, Theodore
Gault, Mrs. Eliza
Geagen, Mrs. William
Getty House.
Getty, Miss R. M.
Gibson, Mrs. J.
Gilbert, Mrs. J. F.
Gilbert, Thomas
Gilman, Theodore
Gingenbaeh, Mrs.
Gleason, D.
Glenwood Social Club.
Golding, Mrs. Henry
Goodale, Mrs. J. Warren
" Good, Will."
Gordinier, W. E.
Goi-man, L.
Gorton, Charles E.
Gorton, Mrs. Charles E.
Gorton, James T.
Gorton, Miss Jessie G.
Goss, George R.
Gouch, Frank B.
Gouch, William T.
Gould, Mrs. E. Sherman
Gould, Frank
Goiild, Jack
Gould, Miss Lizzie
Gould, Miss Susan
Graham, Mrs. A.
Graham, John
Graney, William .J.
Graves, Mrs. Walter
Green, Miss Ella
Greenhalgh, Mrs. Joseph
Greeuhalgh, Miss Mabel
Gregory, Michael
Grieve, A.
Grieve, D.
Grieve, W.
Grifflng, Mrs. A.
Grimmel, Mrs. H.
Guion, Mrs. H. G.
Gunn, Miss Nellie M.
Gwynn, Miss M.
Haas, Mrs. S.
Haight, Abram H.
Hale, J. W.
Hale, Thomas
Halliday, A.
Halliday, Mrs. A.
Halsey, Mrs. William L.
Hampson, Mrs. T. E.
Hanlon, Frank
Hanright, John
Harber, Miss EUa
HarteU, Richard
Hartshorn & Ingham.
Harvey, Mrs. James H.
HateheU, Harry
Hatfield, Miss Ethel
Hatfield, John G.
Hatfield, Mrs. John G.
Havemeyer, Mrs. A. A.
Havemeyer, Miss Hamet
Havemeyer, Mrs. John C.
Havey, Ambrose S.
Havey, P. H., Children of
Hawley, David
Hayden, Rev. R. M.
Hayes, Miss May
Hayward, Samuel
Hayward, Mrs. Samuel
Hazard, A. P.
Hazard, Mrs. A. P.
Hazard, Mrs. E. J.
H. B.
Head, Martin
Healey, Andrew J.
Healey, William J.
YOSKERS IN THE UEliELLIOX.
Heertuance, Miss Georgie
Heermance, Miss rielon
Heernianci-. .Mi^~ .losic
Heenii;iiiii . Mi-~ K. L.
Heeriuaiici-. .Mis^ I'aulinc
Heerniancf, Miss
Heerniauce, William L.
Heerniance, Mrs. Win. L.
" Helping Hand.'"
Herlihy, Jlrs. John
Hermance, Mrs. R. M.
Hermans, Mrs. Joseph
Henneberger, Mrs. John
Henry, L. J.
Hi'pwortb, Miss Constance
Hci)\v(irth, Miss Gertrude
lli.-k.y. Miss Minnie
lli.'k.v. W. p.
Hi.ks. Henry 1{.
Hiers, WilUam F.
Higgins, Mrs. Arthur S.
Higgins, S.
Hill'. Mrs. A.
Hill. Miss S;irah J.
Hillli.nise,Mrs. M. T. (i.
H. M. M.
H.iar. Mrs. William
Hul,r. Bernard
11. .I,,-. Hans Moritz
IL.triiiMM, Mrs. G.
HolVman, Mrs.W. H.
Ilog.l. Herbert A.
Holioiiii, Miss Lilly F.
Holden, J. G. P.,andfaniily.
Holden, Miss Mai-y
Holder, Francis T.
Holme. William
Holt, Henry
Horton. (ieorge W., Jr.
H.ilcbkiss. E. H.
Houston. H. Alex.
ll,,u>l.,M. Mrs. K.Alex.
il<ni>tiin, Sam\icl
ll(iust(in. .Mrs. Samuel
Hover, Joseph
Howard. I{oliert H.
Hoy an. E. J.
Hojt, Colgate
Hubbard. C. T.
Hubbard, S. T.
Hubbell. Mrs. J. W.
Humason, Virgil P.
Humasou, Mrs. Virgil P.
Hunt, E. R.
Hunt, airs. E. R.
Hunt, James M.
Hurd, Mi-s. Asa
Huston, S.
Hut«hins, Waldo
Imhoff, Antony
In Memoriam.
In Memory. W. C. R.
Ipson, A.
Jackson, Edwin M.
Jackson, James H.
Jackson, Mrs. Robert G.
Jackson, S. J.
Jackson, William, Jr.
Jackson, W. H.
Jacobson, Lewis
J. B. A.
Jardine, Grace
Jardine, John
Jardine, Mrs. John
Jardine, Mabel D.
J., Mrs. C. B.
Jenkins. Charles
Jewell, Frederick E.
Jewell. Raymond A.
Jewell, Miss Sanih E.
Jewell, Stephen S.
John, Miss G.
Johnson, Alex. B.. Jr.
Johnson, A. H.
Johnson, C. W.
Johnson. John Q. A.. Jr.
Johnson, William C.
John.ston, Bernard E.
Johnstone, Joseph E.
Johnstone, Richard M.
CONTRIBUTORS TO THE MONUMENT FUND.
253
Jones, Alfred
Jones, Miss Louisa
Jones, WaiTen Arthur
Juut;, Mrs. E.
K.
Kaek.
Kaler, George H.
Kaler, Mrs. George H.
Kane, Miss Martha T.
Kane, WiUiam H.
Kearns, James J.
Keeler, Miss Adelie F.
Keeler, John H.
Keeler, Mrs. John H.
Keeler, John W.
Keith, Alexander
Kellinger, Miss
KeUock, Mrs. James
Kellock, Miss Margaret
Kellock, Mrs. Robert
Kellogg, Lewis
KeUogg, S. T.
KeUogg, William C.
KeUogg, Mrs. William C.
Kelly, James
Kelly, Lawrence J.
Kemphn, Miss A.
Kemplin, Miss C.
KempUn, Miss J.
Kennedy, James
Keppel, Frederick
Keppel, Mrs. Frederick
Keppel, Mrs. S.
Kerns, S. P.
Kerr, George
Ketcham, Mrs. D. H.
Ketcham, George E.
Ketcham, Mrs. George E.
Ketcham, Miss Lulu
Keyser, Hem-j- T.
Kiely, James
Kiely, Michael A.
Kiernan, John
Kilgore, Mrs. R.
King, Miss Mary Laura
King, Di'. Nathan 8.
King, Mrs. Nathau S.
Kuinan, Arthur P. W.
Kinnan, Mrs. A. P. W.
Kinnan, Morris Edgerton
Kinnan, Mrs. M. J.
Kipp, Mrs. Augustus
Kirchoil, Adam
Kirkwood, Mrs. A. O.
Kirkwood, A. S.
Kirkwood, Miss Nelhe
Kirkwood, Robert O.
Kirkwood, William R.
Kito, Feijiro
Klein, Christian A.
Knauff, Grant
Kniffen, Mrs. Adehne
Kurt. Adolph
Lally, Thomas J.
Lancaster, Mrs. James
Landy, James
Landy, John R.
Lane, D. E.
Lapham, Mrs. E. A.
Lasher, John K.
Lasher, Mrs. John R.
Law, Walter W.
Lawrence, Arnett Royce
Lawrence Brothers.
Lawrence, Mrs. C. E.
Lawrence, Mrs. J., In Me-
moriam
Lawrence, Harry A.
Lawson, Miss
Lawson, Miss Cornelia B.
Lee, Miss
Lee, Mrs.
Lee, Mrs. Thomas E.
Lee, Mrs. WUliam
LefflngweU, Miss Helen
LeifingweU, Miss Julia
Letiingwell, Mrs. Charles R.
Lent, WiUiam H.
Leppert, Joseph
Leslie, Willin.m
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YOKKEhS IN THE liEBELLION.
Lewis, John
Lewis, John, Jr.
Lews, Miss Rebecca
Lewis, Williau)
Light, Mrs. Robert B.
Linehaa, Miss Annie
Linehan, Jeremiah
Linehan, John
Littebrandt. Mrs. -loliii .1.
Locke, Mrs. Jolm J.
Loekwood, Arthur J.
Loekwood, Charles
Loekwood, Miss F. C.
Loekwood, Howai'd A.
Loekwood, Joseph A.
Loekwood, Mrs. Joseph A.
Loewenthal, Miss A.
Loewenthal, Myer
Loewenthal, Mrs. Myer
Logan, John
Logue, Barnard
Lohr, H.
Lonergan, Miss Lizzie
Lonergan, Thomas
Lonergan, Mi-s. Thomas
Lord, Howard W.
Lowerre, George H.
Loyal Girls of School C.
Loyal Women.
Loyalty.
LjTich, Thomas
Lyons, Mrs. Herman
Machin, Mrs. Sarah
Mackay, George D.
Maekey, Miss Telia
Ma<-k,"v, John
Ma.k..y. W.
Miickittenek. Mi-s.
Mail Mild Express, N. Y.
Mall.iii. Edwanl
Maiigiii, <'a]>taiM .lnhii
Many. F. Ileniiau
M.ips, KdwanlC.
Martin, Edward
Martin. (Charles H.
JIartin, Mrs. Cliarles H.
Martin, Mrs. C. E.
Martin, H.
Martin, James E.
Martin, Miss liose
Martine, Miss
Martling, Miss
Mellifont, Mrs. A. H.
Mercer, Mrs. ( 'harl.s T.
Mester, J.
Mickel, W.
Midehin, Andrew
Middlebrook, W. W.
Millbank, Mrs. Lsaac
JliUer, Hiram K.
Jliller, Jlrs. Joseph
JliUer, Mrs. W.
Milliot, Mrs. P.
Millward, James
Millward, Mrs. James
Millward, James, Jr.
Milne, Jlrs. John
Mitchell, ('.
Mitchell, Edward J.
Mitchell. Jlrs. (ieorge
Mitchell. Miss Mary E.
Mitchell, Michael F.
MofTatt, James
MolTat, John B.
Moller, William F.
Jlontague, Charles H.
Montague, 51 rs. Charles H.
Montgomery Club.
Monument Lot.
Mooney, Michael
Moore, Charles H.
Moore, Miss Edith
Moore, Mre. Herbert M.
Moore, Mrs. James, Jr.
Moore, Mrs. Thomas
Moore, William
Moran, James
Morgan, William M.
Morgan. Mi-s. William M.
Morosini, Giovanni 1'.
Morrill, G.
CONTRIBUTORS TO THE MONUMEI^
Morris, Mrs. Edmund Y.
Morris, John H.
Morris, Mrs. John H.
Mon-is, Mrs. Thomas
Morrison, Thomas
Morrissey, Thomas F.
Morse, Miss Edith William
Morse, G. Livingston
Morse, Mrs. Gilford
Mosher, Mrs. Charles W.
Moshier, Philip
Mott, Abram C.
Mott, E. C.
Mott, Frank Douglas
Mott, Kenneth
Mott, WiUiam R.
Mott, Mrs. WilUam R.
Mulcahey, .James
Muldoon, M.
Muller, Clarence
Munn, EKjah F.
MiuTay, C.
Murray, J.
Myers, David
Myers, Mrs. David E.
Myers, Miss Gertrude
McAdam, David
McCarthy, Con
McCarthy, D.
McCarthy, Joseph
McClaury, William
McCue, Jerry
McCue, Michael
McElmeel, Edward
McFaU, Mrs. L.
McGarry, George
McGowan, James
McGowan, Peter
McGowan, S. C.
McGrath, Mrs. Denis, Sr.
McGrath, Mrs. Denis F.
McGrath, John T.
McGrath, Mrs. .John T.
McGrath, Michael
McGrath, Richard
NT FUND.
McGrath, Mrs. Richard
McGrath, Thomas
McKimm, Mrs. William
McLaughlin, James
McLoughlin, Rev. T. B.
McMahon, Thomas
McMinn, .Tames
Mclntyre, Miss Amy Adele
Mclntyi-e, Harold Devoe
Mclntyre, James D.
Mclntyre, Mrs. James D.
McIntjTe, John Chester
Mclntyre, Miss Mary J.
Mc Vicar, James
Mc Vicar, Mrs. James
Mc Vicar, Thomas
Mc Vicar, Mrs. Thomas
Naylor, Miss Frances
Neidig, George
Nelson, Miss Matilda
NeviUe, Robert H.
Neville, Mrs. Robert
Newman, Chester W.
Newman, Howard M.
Newman, Mrs. Howard M.
Newman, Miss Madeline
Nickerson, Mrs. R.
Nisbet, William F.
Noble, Miss May
Nolan, James
Nolan, Thomas
Nold, J.
Northrup, Miss
Oakley, Mrs. Branson K.
Oakley, Mrs. David L.
Oakley, Marvin R.
Oakley, Mrs. Marvin R.
Oakley, Mrs. S. D.
O'Brien, .James
O'Connor, H.
Odell, Mrs. James B.
Offerman, George W.
Olferman, W.
O'Leary, Con
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25(j
YOXKEliS IX THE HEliELUON.
O'Leaiy, William
Oliver, Edwin A.
Oliver, John W.
Oliver. Mrs. John W.
Oliver, Jlrs. Thoina.-^
< »!iiist.(l. John
Olmsted. Miss Lucy
( rXiill. Francis
0.sl)oni, George W.
Osterheld, 5Irs. Henry
Osterheld, Miss Nellie
Osterheld, Miss Theresa
Otis, Arthur
Otis, Mrs. B. A.
Otis, Bradford R.
Otis, Charles R.
Otis. .Mrs. Charles R.
Otis. Charles R., Jr.
Otis. Miss Katharine
Otis. Norton P.
Otis. Mrs. Norton P.
Otis, Norton P., Jr.
Otis, Sidney
Owens, Mrs. James H.
O.xholm, Mrs.
Paddock, Walter H.
Paddock, Mrs. Walter H.
Pagan, Miss Edith C.
Pagan, Miss Ethel Belle
Pagan, Jliss Grace Estellc
Pagan, Henry W.
Pagan, John, Sr.
Pagan, Mrs. John
Pagan, John, Jr.
Pagan & Son
Palmer, Jlrs. A. J.
Palmer, Charles Andrew
Palmer, Charles W.
Palmer, Miss Heleu
Palmer, Joseph H.
Palmer, Mi-s. Josei)h H.
Palmer, Miss .May W.
Palmer, Miss
Pai-son.s, Mi.ss Florence J.
Parsons, John I).
Parsons, Miss Josephine F.
Parsons, William
Parton. Mrs. Arthur
Paul. Mrs. Carl W.
Paul, Grant
Paul, MLss Mary R.
Paul, Theodore S.
Peake, Cyrus A.
Peek, Mrs. Gideon H.
Peck, Miss Gladys Anna
Peck, Percy Stan-
Peck, Mrs. Sidney S.
Peckham, George
Peene, George W.
Peene, Mrs. George, Jr.
Peene, Miss Hattie
Peene, Joseph, Sr.
Peene, Mrs. Joseph, Sr.
Peene, Miss Katie
Peene, Stephen A.
Peene, Mrs. Stephen A.
Pentreath, John, Jr.
Pentreath, Mrs. John
Percival, Charles W.
Percival, J. Mortimer
Percival, W. A.
Perkins, Miss Alice
Perkins, Miss Georgia
Perkins, Miss Ruth
Perkins, William E.
Persise. James
Pfeiffer, Jlrs. Charles
Pfeiffer, Miss Lizzie
Phelan, Mrs. Fenton
PhUUps, Dr. R. Oliver
PhiUips, Mrs. R. Oliver
Phillips. Richard Oliver, Jr.
Pigeon. ]Mrs.
Pike, Charles
Pilson, Conway
Pitkin, Mrs. (J. I).
I'itkin, Miss Louise I).
Poole, Mi's. W. • '.
" Poor Girl."
Post, Mrs. L.
Powell. Mrs. ( liarhs K.
CONTRIBUTORS TO THE 3WyUMENT FUND.
257
Power, William
Prendergast, James J.
Price, Mrs. T. E.
Prime, Alanson J.
Prime, Miss Edith
Prime, Rev. D. "Wendell
P. Robbie
Prote, Miss Jennie
Prote, Mrs. John B.
Prote, Mrs. John R.
Prote, J. B. & Son
Prote, Miss M. L.
Pruyn, Alma T.
PrujTi, Captain John I.
Pubhc School Xo. 1
Public School No. 2
Pubhc School No. 3
Pubhe School No. 4
PubUc School No. 5
Public School No. G
Public School No. 7
PubUc Spirit
Pj-ne, Mrs. E. H.
Quanchi, Mi-s. A.
Quick. Edwin A.
Quick, Mrs. Edwin A.
Quick, Miss Ella F.
Quick, Frederick N.
Quick, S. Francis
Quick, ilrs. S. Francis
Quick, Wilbur E.
Quinn, Heni-y J.
RadcUff, Abram S.
Radchff, Mrs. Abram S.
Radford, Mrs. A. A.
Radford, Mrs. Thomas A.
Ramage, Mrs. J.
Rand, Rev. William W.
RandaU. Mrs. Wesley
Randolph, Jlrs. C. F.
Randolph, Miss M. S. F.
Randolph, Miss
Ratcliff, William
Rau, Frederick W.
Raj-ner, Mrs. George
Raj-ner, Jlrs. George, Jr.
Read. .Jacob
Read, :Mrs. Jacob
Reagan, Michael
Redding, John T.
Reed, Charies
Reed, J.
Reeves, Miss Emma
Reevs, Dr. G. P.
Reid. Mrs. George C.
Reid, Miss May
Reid, Rev. John, D. D.
Reid, Mrs. John
RejTiolds, Gideon C.
Rejmolds, Mi-s. James
Rhodes, Mrs. Thomas A.
Richardson, Wilham H.
Richardson, Mrs. Wm. H.
Richmond, Fred. Scott
Rider, A. L.
Rigby, Franklin A.
Roach, Miss Nellie
Roberts, Mrs. Carohne "SI.
Roberts, R. A.
Robertson, William
Robin.son, James
Robinson, Walter W.. Jr.
Robinson, Mrs. Walter W
Rockwell, John W.
Rockwell, Mrs. John W.
Rose. JIi-s. A. Middleton
Ross. John
Ross. Miss Maggie
Ross, :Mi-s. Roderick
Ross, Thomas
Rowe, Miss Mattie C.
Rowe, M. F.
Rowland, Mrs. Charles
Rowland, Miss Dorothy
Rowland, John, Jr.
Rowland, Mrs. John, Jr.
Rowland, Miss Mary E.
Rowland, Ralph w"
Rowland, Mrs. Ralph
Rowland. Mrs. Wilham
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YOXKER.^ IX THE UKBELLIOy.
Roys, Charles
Russell. Patrick
Sahapian, Asian
Sandford, Mrs. Thomas
Sanger, Joseph G.
Sanfrer, Miss
Saunders, Alexander
Saunders, Mrs. Alexander
Saunders, En'en
Saunders, Miss Helen M.
Saunders, Leslie M.
Saunders, Miss Mary K.
Sawyer, Mrs. Laura K.
Scanlan, Thomas
Scherp, Jacob
Seherp. Mrs. Jacob
Schlcssinper, Leopold J.
Scldobolim. John H.
Schlobohm, Jlrs. WiUiam
Schnieckenbecker, Mrs. M.
Schooninakcr, E. B.
Schooniuaker, Willie
Schoix-n, Mrs. Kniil
Schultz. Mrs. Charles
Scotland, Miss Isabel
Scotland, Miss JIarjorie
Scott, Fred. (Richra'd, Va.)
Scott, Mrs. W. H.
Scribner, Miss Florence
Scribner, G. Hilton
Scribner. Miss Marfruerite
Scribner, Miss Marion
Scribner, Mrs. Sarah P.
Scriven, J. F.
Scriven, Mrs. James
Scruf;ham,Wm.Warburtou
Seaman, Mrs. A. J.
See, Alonzo I).
See, Mi-s. Alonzo D.
See, Thomas (i.
See. Mi-s. Thomas (L
Seliffiiiau, Isaac
Sene, J. E.
Servic Club, The
S. E. S.
Shannon, P.
Shaughnessy, James W.
Shaughnessy, Thomas J.
Shaughnessy, Mrs. Thos. J.
Shaw, Edward R., Ph. D.
Shea, Daniel J.
Shonnard, Miss Eugenie F.
Shonnard, Mrs. Frederic
Shonnard, Horatio S.
Shonnard, Kennedy
Shonnard, Ludlow
Shonnard, Mrs. S. A.
Shonnard, Miss Sophia S.
Shotts, Miss Ida
Shotts, John C.
Shotts, Mrs. John C.
Shotts, J. H. M.
Shotts, Miss Sadie L.
Shuler, George
Sickley, Jlrs. Cjtus
Silkman, Theodore H.
Silliman, Benjamin
Simmonds, Jlrs. WUUam
Simpson, Jlrs. T..uke
Skerrett. Jacob
Skillman, Mrs. L.
Skinner, I^Irs. A. L.
Skinner, ISIiss Bertha
Skinner, Mrs. Charles E.
Skinner, Halcyon
Slade, James
Sloan, Robert
SmaU, Mrs. John C.
Smalley, William H.
Smith, Miss Agnes
Smith, Duncan
Smith, JILss Eleanor
Smith, Miss Estelle
Smith, Mrs. G. C.
Smith. Miss Lizzie
Smith, Mrs. Rali.h H.
Smith, Jliss Tillie
Smith. Wallis
Smith, Mrs. Wallis
Smith. Warren B.
Smith. William
CONTRIBUTOES TO THE MONUMENT FUND.
259
Snyder, Jlrs. J. B.
Soetemon, Peter
Soldier's Daughter
Somerset, Mrs. S.
Spear, Miss Edith
Spear, Mrs. H.
Spillane, T.
Stahlnec'ker, Hon. Wni. G
Stapleton, Miss Tillie I.
Stan-, G. H.
Starr, G. M.
StaiT, H. B.
Starret, James
Stengel, Miss Edna
Stengel, Mrs. Henry
Stephens, Mrs. L. J.
Stewart, Arthur
Stewart, Miss Elsie
Stewart, George
Stewart, Mrs. George
Stewart, George U.
Stewart, James
Stewart, Mrs. James
Stewart, Mrs. James, Jr.
Stewart, Mrs. James P.
Stewart, J. & G.
Stewart, Mrs. K. "W.
Stewart, Miss M. E.
Stewart, Miss
StUweU, Benjamin W.
Stilwell, Mrs. Benjamin W.
Stone, Miss Amy S.
Stone, Mrs. Robert
Stone, Miss
Strang, Mrs. F. A.
Strang, William B.
Sullivan, A.
Sullivan, James J.
Sullivan, John H.
Sweny, William H.
Sweeney, Denis
Swift, Miss Martha
Swift, Samuel, M. D.
S. W. H.
Sykes, Mrs. Lizzie
Tacoma Social Club.
TaUmadge, Mrs. G. C.
Tarbell, John H.
Tarbell, Miss M. H.
Tatum, Mrs. H. Viele
Tatum, Edward
Taxter, Mrs. David H.
Taylor, Mrs. Allen
Taylor, Miss Bessie A.
Taylor, Miss Carrie
Thayer, Miss Anna M.
Thayer, Gordon Gerald
Thayer, Horace H.
Thayer, Mrs. Horace H.
Thayer, Reginald Holdeu
Thayer, Stephen H.
Thomas, Walter
Thomas, Mrs. Walter
Thompson, D.
Thomson, John
Thorne, Miss Anna V.
Thome, Cleveland May
Thome, Mrs. Emily C."
Thorne, Wilham H.
Tice, .James G.
Tierney, John
Tietjen, Christian F.
Timm, Mrs. Charles F.
Titlar, W. D.
Tobin, Thomas
Tompkins, Mrs. Abram H.
Tompkins, A. C.
Tompkins, Mrs. A. C.
Tompkins, Miss G.J.
Tompkins, Mrs. Gilbert H.
Tompkins, Mrs. J. M.
Torphy, Thomas
Tousey, Sinclair
Treanor, J. J. & F. P.
Treanor, Francis P.
Tremper, George H.
Tremper, John R.
Tremper, Mrs. John R.
Trevor, Henry G.
Trevor, John B.
Tripler, Miss
2G0
YONKElifi IS THE REBELLION.
Trotter, R. R., M. D.
Trow, J. Fowler
Turner, Thomas
Tyler, Mrs. Bayard H.
Tyiueson, Mrs. Eujarene
UUman, Mrs. August
Ulrich, Mrs. August
Ulrieh, Miss Lizzie M.
Underhill, C. F.
UuderhiU, Mr.s. C. F.
Underiiill. F]dwai-d
UnderhiU. .Airs. Edward
Underhill, Henry M.
Underhill, Jackson & Co.
Underhill, Dr. T. I.
UuderhiU, Mrs. T. I.
Underhill, Mi-s. Wilber S.
Underwood, Mrs. A. L.
Union.
Valentine, Mrs. Peter
Van Houton, Abram R.
Van Houten, Mi-s. A. R.
Van Xostrand, Bert
Van Steenburgh, Mrs. I.
Van \'orst, Mrs. Seymour
Varian. Mrs. (".
Varian, Mrs. M. E.
Verplanck, Miss Kate A.
Verplanck, I'liilip
Verplanck, Mrs. Philip
Vincent, .1. S.
Vogel, ('. N.
Von Storcli. Frederick
Wadsworth, Mrs. Ansel A.
Wagner, Miss Bertha
Wagner, JIi-s. Jolm M.
Walker, Miss Mabel H.
Wallace, John
Wallace, John. Treasurer of
Foiu-th of .July Parade
Wallace, Jliss Jlav
Wallace, Miss N.rta
Waller, J. F.
Walsli. Mrs. E.
Walsh, Michael
Walsh, Mi-s. Thomas
Wandell, Jacob 0.
Ward, Mrs. Clarence
Waring, Miss Ada R.
Waring, Arthur B.
Waring. Charles E.
Waring, Jlrs. Charles E.
Waring, Hall B.
Waring, Mi-s. Jarvis A.
Waring, John T.
Waring, Miss Mabel W.
Waring, Miss Ruth
Waring, Whitney Newton
Warren, Mrs. George
Warren, Jolm S.
Warren, Mi-s. John S.
Warren. Mm. S. P.
Washburn. Mrs. Hannah
Washburn, W. F.. Jr.
Washburn, Mrs. W. F.
Waters, Mrs. L. P.
Watson, James Albert
Watt, John
W. C. R.
Webb, Mrs. James
Weeks, 5Irs. Catharine
Weicht, Theodore
Weiderhold, C.
Weller & Welsh.
Weller, Jliss Grace A.
Weller, .Mi-s. James H.
Wellnian, Jliss Grace
Welsh, John
Welsh, Mrs. Thomas
Welsh, Mrs. William
Westcott, Mrs. A. F.
Westney. Mi-s. Willi;im
Wlialen'john J.
Whalen, Joseph
Wl.eeler. Charles W.
Wheeler, Miss Florence E.
Wheeler. Frank E.
Wlieeler, Mrs. Lucy
Whiffler, Jo.soph
CONTRIBUTORS TO THE MONUMENT EUND.
261
White, Miss Emma
White, Miss MOlie
Whitney, S. R.
Widman, Mrs. G.
Wiggins, Mrs. Lewis H.
Wilcox, Richard E.
WilUams, F. C.
Williams, Mrs. John E.
Willoughby, Miss M. C.
WUsou, John
" Wish It Was More "
Wood, Edgar F.
Wood Place Fair.
Woodruff, Frederick H.
Woodruff, Thomas
Worden, Amos W.
Wordeu, J. Perry
Wray, George B.
Wray, Mrs. George B.
Wray, Miss Mabel V.
Wray, Miss May
Wright, Mrs. P. M.
Wyer, H. S. (Nantucket)
Wyman, C. Dinsmore
Wyman, Mrs. C. Dinsmore
Yerks, Ehjah M.
Yerks, Mrs. Elijah M.
Yonkers Club.
Yonkers Lyceum.
Yonkers Military School.
Yonkers Photographic Club.
Yonkers Police Force.
Youmans, Edgar W.
Youmans, Mrs. Edgar W.
Youmans, Miss F. Zeta
Young, Mrs. George
Boys' Branch Young Men's Christian Association.
Carpenters' and Joiners' Local Union No. 273.
City Hose Company No. 3.
Columbia Hook and Ladder Company.
Columbia Lodge No. 122, Knights of St. George.
Committee on World's Fair at Van Cortlandt Park.
Company A, Hibernian Rifles.
Employees of D. Saunders' Sons.
Employees of W. F. Washburn Brass and Iron Works.
Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association.
Finishers of the Yonkers Hat Manufacturing Company.
Fourth Separate Company, N. Y. S. N. G.
Holsatia Lodge No. 297, D. O. H.
Hope Hook and Ladder Company No. 1.
Houston Hose Company No. 6.
Hudson Hose Company No. 1.
Irving Hose Company No. 5.
.John C. Fremont Post No. 590. G. A. R.
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Kitchiug Post No. GO. G. A. K.
Lady Wasliington Enarine Coinpany No. 'J.
Miss M. I. Bliss and School.
Members of Boys' Branch Y. M. C. A.
Mountaineer Engine Company No. 2.
Nepperhan Lodge No. 736, F. A. M.
Palisade Hose Company No. 4.
Proceeds of Children's Parlor Entertainment at Mrs. iSykes's
Residence.
Proceeds of Hon. Chauncey M. Depew's Lecture.
Proceeds of Exhibition of Yonkers Photographic Club.
Proceeds of Fourth Separate Company Fair.
Proceeds of Law-n Fete at No. 211 Warburton Avenue.
Proceeds of Magic Lantern ExhibitioTi at No. 170 Pali.sade
Avenue.
Proceeds of Magic Lantern Exhibition by Clarence Muller
and Arthur Stewart.
Proceeds of Opera of " Pinafore."
Proceeds of Punch and Judy Show.
Proceeds of Wood Place Fair.
Protection Engine Company No. 1.
Rising Star Lodge No. 450, F. A. M.
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners.
United German Societies.
Veteran National (iuardsmen.
Viewville Litei-ary Association.
Westminster Church Young People's Association.
Yonkers Liiiuor Dealers' Protective Association.
Yonkei-s Lodge No. 2.32, I. 0. O. F.
Yonkers Lodge No. 1872, Knights of Honor.
Yonkers Lodge No. 265, Knights of Pythias.
Yonkers Rebekah Degree Lodge No. 93.
Yonkei-s Schuyler Electric Light Company.
Young Men's Catholic Association.
Young Men's Clirislinn Assiiciation.
THE SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' MONUMENT
ASSOCIATION,
AS CONSTITUTED AT THE COMPLETION OF THE WORK.
Charles E. Gorton, Fresident.
John C. Shotts aud Galusha B. Balch, Vice-Presidents.
E. Alexander Houston, Secretary.
John W. Oliver, Treasurer.
J. Irving Burns, Willi.^ai Allen Butler,
WILLL4M L. Heermance, J. Harvey Bell,
Charles R. Otis, Ethelbert Belknap,
Joseph F. Daly, Frederic Shonnaed,
James Stewart, Stephen H. Thayer,
S. Francis Quick, Edwin A. Quick,
Wm. Fred. Lawrence, Augustus Kipp
Edward Underhill, Charles E. Allison
Matt. H. Ellis, a. O. Kirkwood,
J. G. P. HOLDEN, WILLI.4JI WeLSH,
James Millward, Walter Thomas,
James V. Lawrence, William F. Moller,
James Sheridan.
EXECUTR'E COSIiVnTTEE.
John W. Oliver, Chairman, Charles E. Gorton,
Joseph F. Daly, Secretary, WiLLLiM L. Heermance,
J. Irving Burns.
DEDICATION COMMITTEE.
William L. Heermance, Chairman, John C. Shotts,
J. Irving Burns, Secretary, Matt. H. Ellis,
James V. Lawrence.
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